Academic Success and Writing Blog
Harnessing the Power of Mindset
As a new year begins, many people make new year’s resolutions. Whether you resolve to eat better, move more, or learn a new skill, having a “can do” mindset can be a key to...
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...
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). ...
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...
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...
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;...
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...
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...