Students and faculty can attend a series of live workshops in January that focus on academic writing. We have seven exciting workshops for students and faculty to choose from: Reading […]
Greetings All! Today I want to talk just a little bit about Wikipedia, probably the most famous wiki of them all, a user-created and edited online encyclopedia that provides information […]
Hi All, Today I want to share with you a (relatively) new Kaplan University Writing Center resource–the Effective Writing Podcast Series. The series started in mid-August and is narrated by […]
I attended a memorable session on the power of Twitter and how the technology can be used to build community. I admit that I am still a bit of a […]
Greetings Readers! To use an often quoted expression that seems most appropriate–I’m back! At least for the next two weeks. And the timing couldn’t be better as I just returned […]
Happy day before Thanksgiving, dear readers! In the spirit of the upcoming holiday, I wanted to share poems from Poets.org related to gratitude and cinematographer Louie Schwartzberg’s awe-inspiring TED talk. […]
[gigya src=”http://prezi.com/bin/preziloader.swf” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” allowfullscreen=”true” allowscriptaccess=”always” width=”450″ height=”300″ bgcolor=”#ffffff” flashvars=”prezi_id=zynyss2aotkw&lock_to_path=0&color=ffffff&autoplay=no&autohide_ctrls=0″] In the past month, I have had the good fortune of attending and presenting at two excellent conferences: the Midwest Writing […]
Dear readers, Are there not a million and one acronyms in education? Sure, there are! But one of my very favorites is Writing Across the Curriculum, or WAC. WAC has […]
Even the most proficient multilingual students struggle with language fundamentals such as preposition and gerund use that native speakers acquire intuitively as children. It takes years of immersion in English […]
