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Happy 2022!
The Academic Success Center staff wishes you holiday cheer and a happy new year! We hope the New Year brings you good health, much happiness, and plenty of prosperity. We will resume our academic success and writing blogcasts on Friday, January 21, 2022.
Spellcheck and Grammar Check: Evil Writing Superstars – Their Luster Needs to Fade!
Timmy Whitherspoon, university student and aspiring business entrepreneur, had in front of him an assignment to write his legacy essay for an advertising class (the assignment: create a product, then sell it to readers). He knew it would not fail: the idea was perfect, his outline gave a great structure, and the gathered research fit...
Prepping Students for the Holidays
Happy Thanksgiving weekend, everyone! This is Amy Sexton with the Academic Success Center. With the holiday season officially here, we thought faculty, staff, and instructors might find the following tips for preparing your students for the holidays timely. This post was written by Dr. Tamara Fudge, a professor in the School of Business and Information...
A Return to Writing
Hi there! My name is Paige Erickson, and I’m a faculty member from the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences. Welcome to the Academic Success Center Blogcast. In this episode, I’m going to talk about a return to writing. Stuck in traffic, a few lines of dialogue came to mind. I started dreaming up a...
An Important Must for any Writer: That Second-Coolest Paragraph, the Concluding Paragraph!
The lemmings of writing fall into the abyss of confusion and “Huh?” by the reader. These are the essays, the columns, the articles that read as if a knife suddenly sliced off the end; the reader has nicely and dutifully followed each paragraph, knowing a finality, a summary, a conclusion will eventually appear – but...
Crafting the Utterly Coolest Paragraph: The Opening Paragraph
“We are the first – yippee!” Oh, yes, how true: the opening paragraph IS the first paragraph, but it so much more: it is the coolest paragraph in any writing! No matter the writing – essay, column, book, email, review, letter, etc. – there must always be a first paragraph, a lead-off paragraph, an opening...
To Use “I” or Not to Use “I”: That Is Not Really a Question
“How can I show my experience and opinion without using ‘’I’?” a student recently asked for about the billionth time in my teaching career. Hi everyone! This is TK from the Department of Composition and WAC at Purdue Global. In CM 107–our Composition I course–students progress from personal writing about problem-solving to academic writing. As...
Destroying The He-Himself Syndrome: Getting Rid of Words and Phrases That Are Obvious and Bloat One’s Writing
Let’s see, I need to write about my life. Okay, this is how I’ll start: “To me my life has been, in my honest opinion, actual joy. The life’s experiences I went through included the following: going to learning schools, having an employable job, and getting married to my wife. I have to say these...
Understanding the Assignment
Hi everyone! This is Amy from the Academic Success Center. For many people, September means returning to school. At Purdue University Global, two new terms begin in September. With this in mind, we thought a throwback to a previous blog post about understanding assignments by Kurtis Clements would be appropriate. This blogcast was previously published...
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