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Archive for August 17th, 2016

Capstone—Celebrating Creative Purdue University Global Alter Egos

Barbara c.g. Green, MA & MS, Purdue University Global Assistant Chair of Composition For most academics, writing usually focuses on grading papers and working to get academically published.  Clearly, tasks […]

Summer Reading Review: The White Queen

Angela Roberts, Purdue University Global Writing Center Tutor   The White Queen is a historical fiction novel by Philippa Gregory. It provides a fascinating account of the life of Elizabeth […]

Weighing the Books

By Chrissine Rios, MA, Purdue University Global Writing Center My home office-by-day/studio-at-heart is one of my favorite places for many reasons, and about 200 of them are books. Some have […]

Resource Spotlight: 3 NEW Effective Writing Podcasts

By Chrissine Rios, MA, Purdue University Global Writing Center, Tutor Until this week, Purdue University Global (Purdue Global) Composition students have had exclusive access to three new Effective Writing Podcasts from […]

Writing Workshops with Erma

Lisa Gerardy, Writing Center Specialist In my spare time, when I am not wearing my Academic Support Center Specialist hat, I’m a humor blogger.  I blog under my maiden name […]

Teaching Voice with Poetry

By Chrissine Rios, MA, Purdue University Global Writing Center While we work with our students toward effective sentences, they (we!) create outcomes, and one of the most important yet least […]

Tutor Chrissine’s Top 3 Books from 2015: 63 Innovation Nuggets, Stella Rose, and Navigating Grace

Reviews by Chrissine Rios, MA, Writing Tutor 63 Innovation Nuggets for Aspiring Innovators By George E. L. Barbee (2015) 149 pages George Barbee generously imparts 45 years of worldly corporate […]

Revisiting Emig and Why Writing is Hard

by Chrissine Rios, MA, Kaplan University Writing Center Every month I post to this blog, and every month I don’t know what to write, so I thought this time I’d […]

Mood Music for Writing

Molly Wright Starkweather, Kaplan University Tutor Recently a group of writing center workers from the Southeastern Writing Center Association put together a collection of music titled “Write It Like Disaster,” […]

Winter Reading for Online Faculty

The Four Agreements: A Toltec Wisdom Book by Don Miguel Ruiz ( 138 pages) Reviewed by Amy Sexton, Writing Center Tutor, Kaplan University Writing Center Who should read this book? […]