Spring Cleaning Your Mind
If you do not see the podcast player, click here to listen. When spring starts sending its warm breezes my way, I love nothing more than to throw open all my windows, get some...
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by Melinda Linscott · Published May 12, 2023
If you do not see the podcast player, click here to listen. When spring starts sending its warm breezes my way, I love nothing more than to throw open all my windows, get some...
Grammar / Gratitude / Memoir / Motivation / Online Writing Instruction / Tutors
by Purdue Global Academic Success Center and Writing Center · Published May 22, 2014 · Last modified May 21, 2014
Kyle Harley, Kaplan University Writing Center Tutor Situated not too far in the distant past, a young, hopeful senior in college decided to embark on a writing portfolio as part of his minor’s requirements...
Communication / Gratitude / reading
by Purdue Global Academic Success Center and Writing Center · Published April 26, 2014 · Last modified April 18, 2014
By Stephanie Thompson, Kaplan University Composition Professor Ron Suskind’s recent New York Times Magazine article describes his family’s attempts to connect to their autistic son, Owen, through his love of Disney animated films. A...
Gratitude / Online Writing Instruction / Writing Center Outreach
by Purdue Global Academic Success Center and Writing Center · Published January 1, 2014 · Last modified December 19, 2013
I wish to bring in the new year with the hope and inspiration provided by poet, Maya Angelou. In her tribute here to Nelson Mandela, we move beyond the political to the heart of...
Gratitude / Technology and Writing / WAC General
by Purdue Global Academic Success Center and Writing Center · Published May 24, 2012
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 Composition and the WAC...
by Purdue Global Academic Success Center and Writing Center · Published November 23, 2011
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. Some of Louie’s gems...