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Archive for June 8th, 2012

Pay Up! Plagiarism Costs $500

This must see video records an incident in which a blogger kindly but firmly requests payment for his work from a newspaper who plagiarized an entire article from his blog […]

Why WAC is Really About Collaboration and Touching Interests beyond Your Content Area.

Why WAC is Really About Collaboration and Touching Interests beyond Your Content Area. As Sheryl Bone and I put the final changes on our presentation for the International Writing Across […]

Join Us Now! Lit Up Kaplan Literary Event

Kaplan University Maine Literary ReadingWed, May 30, 1:00pm – 2:30pm Access: http://khe.adobeconnect.com/r8xwjkk3hry Student and professional authors are reading their work as they participate in the KU Literary Event – LitUp! “The […]

Where we’ve been … where we’re going: it’s going to be a heck of a ride

T.S. Eliot once wrote, “The end is where we start from.”  I’ve been thinking about that line a great deal since learning I was going to be coming back to […]

Is freedom of speech on the chopping block?

Censorship is a word that gets tossed around in heated debates and has numerous meanings and interpretations.  It also has strong connotations associated with it. The latest mainstream controversy over […]

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 […]

What’s Wrong with Wikipedia?

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 […]

Poetry and Thanks

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. […]

“Words Are Things. . .”

Maya Angelou says, “Words are things.”  She explains that words are tangible things that take up space and inhabit and influence our world and who we are.  Helping student learn […]

Help Name the Kaplan University Literary Journal

“Seize control of your splendid language. Work your alchemical mumbo jumbo. Mix up your slang. Blow your innumerable horns. Play with feeling.” -Rick Moody I wrote this quote on an […]