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Exceeding Expectations: Successful Discussion Board Grading Feedback for Students

By Josef Vice, Composition Faculty, Kaplan University, Course Lead for CM 107 The grading process can really be time consuming and challenging, especially if you are following all your university and […]

Breakroom Video . . . How to Tutor a Genius: The Importance of Revision

By Melody Pickle, Writing Specialist, WAC, Kaplan University Writing Center This video emphasizes the importance of being able to receive feedback in order to improve a piece of writing.  Sometimes, when […]

Summer Reading List

Welcome! Here is a peek at what some of the Kaplan University Writing Center and the Composition Faculty have been reading early this summer.  What are you reading this summer? […]

Plagiarism Prevention and Note Taking

By Joni Boone In my role as a tutor, I speak with students daily about how to incorporate research into their papers and projects and how to avoid plagiarism. Lack […]

June is Research Writing Month in the KUWC

Welcome to June in the Kaplan University Writing Center.  This month our Writing Workshops will focus on Research Writing.  We have a series of three hour-long workshops that focus on […]

The Paraphrase Daze

By Kyle Harley In the not-so-distant past, I encountered an overly-downtrodden student that, among other issues, came to a Live Tutoring session with his tail between his legs regarding a […]

The Plagiarism-Personality Connection

By Molly Wright Starkweather A recent blog post by Teresa Kelly focuses on showing student writers how plagiarism has a real impact on their quality of education. A related way […]

The Funny Thing About Plagiarism

By Lisa Gerardy, MA As you probably know if you read this blog regularly, it is Plagiarism Month.  Earlier in the month, Melody Pickle wrote a helpful blog on helping […]

5 Tips that Help Students Avoid Plagiarism

By Melody Pickle, Ph.D, KUWC Writing Specialist, WAC Learning to write in an academically acceptable research style is a complex writing task.  To complete this task student writers must step outside […]

I Don’t Have Time for This! Student Writing Process

The student writing experience is often characterized by last minute editing and preparation. (Okay, sometimes, those of us who have been writing for eons procrastinate.) I actually tell students it […]