What a Friendship: The Writer and the Tutor!
If you do not see the podcast player, click here to listen. This was not the best day for Serfeti Alcobar. She was looking at her midterm essay the Economics professor had just returned, and...
Author: Errol Craig Sull
“Unconfusing” the Most Confusing Punctuation Mark of All: The Semicolon!
Fear struck Augustus McTavish beyond what he could recall. Yes, as a child he was frightened by seeing costumes on his first Halloween; he had almost stepped on a snake during a hike and that made his...
The #1 Rule of Writing: You Write for the Reader!
The company had hired Renita Lablount for her accomplished history in food production and development. She led a staff of 14, and her supervisor was extremely pleased with the successes of her department. A...
Digging for Gold: How the Perfect Research Can Make for a Valued Essay
Oceana Tomlinson was in her first year of college and was excited to begin pursuing her major of Urban Management. She had been involved in several of her community volunteer programs and grew to...
A Writer’s Treasure Chest: The Purdue Global Academic Success Center
It was to be the final term paper for Stosh Ivanov. He had been anticipating this all session when he first read over the syllabus: “This is an English course, and of course there...
Erasing the Speaker’s Curse: Filler Words
Ramona DiAsola was the newest member of the training team in a large multinational insurance company. Attending her first conference, her supervisor selected Ramona to make a presentation on a new product the company...
Assignment Mistakes: Beauties to Be Embraced
If you do not see the podcast player, click here to listen. Chin O’Malley was halfway through his Advanced Biology course, and on his computer he had several files open to help with the midterm assignment...
The Curse: Not Following Directions Is a Big Boo-Boo
If you do not see the podcast player, click here to listen. Lurethia McKenzie looked at the syllabus for information on the next course assignment. It was to be a 1000-1200 word essay on a subject...
A Secret Revealed: Becoming an A+ Discussion Instructor
If you do not see the podcast player, click here to listen. “Yup, that is so cool! … “See what you can do to expand that paragraph” … “Little tweaks can have better responses!” …...
Prufreed, prrofreaad, proofread until you get it right!
Winthrop Wilkinson III was applying for a most important professional position: Director of Marketing for a major health insurance provider. His resume gave a nice capsulated view of 20 highly successful years in the...