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Tutor Chrissine’s Top 3 Books from 2015: 63 Innovation Nuggets, Stella Rose, and Navigating Grace

Reviews by Chrissine Rios, MA, Writing Tutor 63 Innovation Nuggets for Aspiring Innovators By George E. L. Barbee (2015) 149 pages George Barbee generously imparts 45 years of worldly corporate […]

Presenting a Poster Presentation: Tips and Reflections

By Amy Sexton, Kaplan University Writing Center Tutor Active professional development and scholarship are extremely important for educators, and conferences can provide an excellent avenue for both. As a virtual […]

Why Wellness? The International Write-In and Writing Well

Molly Starkweather, Kaplan University Writing Center Tutor   The Kaplan University Academic Support Center is taking part in an exciting new opportunity called the International Write-In and will, alongside other […]

Math Center Tutors

Compiled by Lisa Gerardy, Writing Center Specialist   The Math Center is the second oldest center in the Academic Support Center.  It was started by Dr. John Eads in 2006. […]

Re-establishing Manageable Expectations in Tutoring

Kyle Harley, Kaplan University Writing Center Tutor   Here at Kaplan University, our respective support centers housed within the Academic Support Center are lucky. I say this  simply because we […]

Uniting to Help Students SOAR – Working Across Disciplines to Develop a Student-Centric Research Symposium

By Teresa Kelly, Kaplan University Composition Faculty   In higher education, when a challenge presents itself, interdisciplinary collaboration often results in better outcomes than having a single person dedicated to working […]

Verbosity

Dr. Tamara Fudge, Kaplan University Professor in the School of Business and IT    We’ve all gotten those papers – the verbose ones where every sentence feels like a lead […]

Kaplan Science Center Tutors

Compiled by Lisa Gerardy, MA, Kaplan University Writing Center Specialist For the past couple of months, we have featured tutor interviews here on the Kaplan University Academic Support Center blog. […]

Pursuing Positive Intent

Molly Wright Starkweather, Kaplan University Writing Center Tutor   One of the most beneficial approaches to my development of meaningful collegial relationships with students and colleagues has involved mindfulness, particularly […]

Revisiting Emig and Why Writing is Hard

by Chrissine Rios, MA, Kaplan University Writing Center Every month I post to this blog, and every month I don’t know what to write, so I thought this time I’d […]