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APA Workshops for Students & Faculty

Greetings readers! In August, at the request of a number of KU faculty, Diane Martinez and I developed and presented a couple of workshops on particular aspects of APA. Those […]

How to Organize PDF Files

If you’re anything like me, most of your research is done electronically, and you probably have countless folders chockablock full of memory-hogging pdf files. Or worse: one ginormous folder teeming […]

Conference Opportunities Galore!

When the student is ready, the master appears.  ~Buddhist Proverb Hello, readers! I know that September is a busy, back-to-school month for many of us. However, nothing motivates and inspires […]

Writing Center Promotion as a Component of WAC Outreach!

Hi, all! For the next two weeks, I will be sharing some awesome information every Tuesday and Thursday on the following topics: Inventive writing center promos & how we can […]

Grading and the Believing Game

One thing I do as I grade papers is play a form of the Believing Game. Playing the Believing Game as I read keeps me from being overly critical or […]

Writing Histories and the Blank Page Mountain

Students come to us with a writing history, a story that influences how they feel about writing and any writing task.  They may have had a teacher that made them […]

Personal Writing in the Classroom

There are times when professors are baffled by why students write intensely personal information on a discussion board or for an assignment. While there are many reasons this may happen, […]

Writing Across the Curriculum Podcast: Interview of Kevin Kelly

Click the link to listen to the WAC Podcast Series: Interview of Kevin Kelly by Kurtis Clements Kurtis Clements had a moment to sit down with author and Kaplan University […]

Professional development course on WAC coming soon!

One of the goals of a true writing across the curriculum program is to incorporate meaningful writing into all courses.  Meaningful writing means that students use writing to learn as […]

Recommended Summer Reads!

Jeannette Walls Half Broke Horses (270 pages); Reviewed by Melody Pickle, Writing Consultant, Writing Across the Curriculum, Kaplan University Writing Center  Who should read this book? Anyone who read Walls […]