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Distinguishing between plagiarism and a teaching opportunity

I may look meek and mild, but I am really not the coddling type, so don’t get the impression from the title that I am going to write an article […]

Faculty workshops in 2012

The whole year is not yet planned out, but so far, the Writing Center has three informative faculty workshops lined up for 2012.  The following workshops will be presented by […]

APA workshop series offered again in January

The Writing Center will offer a series of APA workshops in January.  Both students and faculty are welcome to attend.  The workshops are: APA, Basic Citation, January 13 at 1:00 […]

January workshop series focuses on academic writing

Students and faculty can attend a series of live workshops in January that focus on academic writing.  We have seven exciting workshops for students and faculty to choose from: Reading […]

What’s Wrong with Wikipedia?

Greetings All! Today I want to talk just a little bit about Wikipedia, probably the most famous wiki of them all, a user-created and edited online encyclopedia that provides information […]

Introducing the Effective Writing Podcast Series

Hi All, Today I want to share with you a (relatively) new Kaplan University Writing Center resource–the Effective Writing Podcast Series. The series started in mid-August and is narrated by […]

NCTE Conference Reflection #2

I attended a memorable session on the power of Twitter and how the technology can be used to build community. I admit that I am still a bit of a […]

NCTE Conference Reflection #1

Greetings Readers! To use an often quoted expression that seems most appropriate–I’m back! At least for the next two weeks. And the timing couldn’t be better as I just returned […]

Poetry and Thanks

Happy day before Thanksgiving, dear readers! In the spirit of the upcoming holiday, I wanted to share poems from Poets.org related to gratitude and cinematographer Louie Schwartzberg’s awe-inspiring TED talk. […]

What I Have Learned in the Past Month

[gigya src=”http://prezi.com/bin/preziloader.swf” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” allowfullscreen=”true” allowscriptaccess=”always” width=”450″ height=”300″ bgcolor=”#ffffff” flashvars=”prezi_id=zynyss2aotkw&lock_to_path=0&color=ffffff&autoplay=no&autohide_ctrls=0″] In the past month, I have had the good fortune of attending and presenting at two excellent conferences: the Midwest Writing […]