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Archive for February 29th, 2012

Writing Workshops Focus on Outlines and Drafting…APA, too

The March writing workshop series provides five workshops designed to help students create appropriate outlines for various types of writing and then move from outline to their first draft.  Organization […]

New APA Resource

The KU Writing Center continually works to update our APA resources and put them in formats that are accessible to a variety of learners and that are easy to use. […]

You Took Points off for that? The APA Title Page

As you can imagine, we get a lot of questions about APA in the Writing Center.    One big point of confusion for students is the different requirements professors have regarding […]

Multiple Intelligences and Teaching

Howard Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences explains in some depth the basic idea that different people learn in different ways. Today, it is generally agreed that there are 8 intelligences: linguistic, musical, […]

February student workshops focus on prewriting and research

The KUWC’s February lineup of student writing workshops focus on prewriting and research strategies.  Prewriting is essential for writing a strong paper from the start.  When students take the time […]

Google World and Academic Sources

In this age where we can Google anything, it is harder and harder for students to identify and locate academic sources.  Why can’t they just Google their topic and pick […]

New! Citation 101 – Interactive Tutorial (APA)

The KUWC is proud to present our NEW, self-paced 2-Part APA Interactive Citation tutorials. You will need to be logged into KU Campus to view the tutorial. The tutorials are […]

Banished Words of 2011

Do you have words or phrases you wish you could banish?  Lake Superior State University published a list of words they would like to banish and why they would like […]

Faculty workshops in 2012

The whole year is not yet planned out, but so far, the Writing Center has three informative faculty workshops lined up for 2012.  The following workshops will be presented by […]

APA workshop series offered again in January

The Writing Center will offer a series of APA workshops in January.  Both students and faculty are welcome to attend.  The workshops are: APA, Basic Citation, January 13 at 1:00 […]