[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 […]
Last week I wrote about using emoticons in the classroom to help colleagues and students alike understand our intentions in our text-based communications. Now, I would like to discuss how […]
When students are asked to write an essay using their personal experience, they are sometimes confused about where to start. They get stuck. Here’s why. . . For students, there […]
Please encourage your students to attend (or view the recordings of) the great workshops we have lined up for November. One of the main problems we all see in student […]
During the first week of October, I presented at and attended the Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication (CPTSC) in Harrisonburg, VA. Besides being blown away by the […]
Greetings readers! In August, at the request of a number of KU faculty, Diane Martinez and I developed and presented a couple of workshops on particular aspects of APA. Those […]
If you’re anything like me, most of your research is done electronically, and you probably have countless folders chockablock full of memory-hogging pdf files. Or worse: one ginormous folder teeming […]
