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Archive for September 20th, 2011

Writing Center Promotion as a Component of WAC Outreach!

Hi, all! For the next two weeks, I will be sharing some awesome information every Tuesday and Thursday on the following topics: Inventive writing center promos & how we can […]

Personal Writing in the Classroom

There are times when professors are baffled by why students write intensely personal information on a discussion board or for an assignment. While there are many reasons this may happen, […]

Professional development course on WAC coming soon!

One of the goals of a true writing across the curriculum program is to incorporate meaningful writing into all courses.  Meaningful writing means that students use writing to learn as […]

Writing to learn vs. learning to write

Every once in a while, you run across an article that hits home about something you’ve been thinking about for some time.  I recently had that experience with Writing to […]

What is meaningful, practical writing?

One of the goals of writing across the curriculum is to make writing more meaningful to students in all classes.  It is not a matter of quantity or frequency, but […]

There’s more to the South than yummy grits…

Last week, I attended the Conference on College Composition and Communication in beautiful downtown Atlanta, Georgia.  Aside from the pleasure of having grits at every meal (buttery grits, cheesy grits, […]

April is grammar month…

or so I say it is!  During April, all of our student workshops focus on grammar, mechanics, and punctuation (the workshop schedule will be available on the Writing Center Writing Workshops page […]

Welcome to the KUWC Faculty Blog

Welcome to the Kaplan University Writing Center Faculty blog.  The main purpose of this blog is to offer resources and support for faculty across Kaplan University in the areas of […]