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...
Category: Learning for Success
The Role of Peer Tutoring in Academic Success
If you do not see the podcast player, click here to listen. Peer Tutoring plays a key role in the academic success of Purdue Global students. Peer Tutors are current and successful students here at...
Boost Your Brain with Healthy Eating
If you do not see the podcast player, click here to listen. Did you know that what you eat can impact your academic performance? Imagine if you could do better on quizzes, write more effective papers,...
Curing the Most Common Disease of Writing: Commaitis
If you do not see the podcast player, click here to listen. Romano Wilmani simply detested any writing. Coming up with a topic was never a problem, and overall she enjoyed doing research when that was...
How to be SMART About Goal-setting
If you do not see the podcast player, click here to listen. How are those new year’s resolutions going? While many of us resolve to make changes in our lives at the start of the new...
What a Friendship: The Writer and the Tutor!
If you do not see the podcast player, click here to listen. This was not the best day for Serfeti Alcobar. She was looking at her midterm essay the Economics professor had just returned, and...
Understanding the Assignment
Hi everyone! This is Amy from the Academic Success Center. For many people, September means returning to school. At Purdue University Global, two new terms begin in September. With this in mind, we thought...
Reading on the Road
In the spring of 1988, I got married and, instead of a traditional honeymoon, spent the next four months vagabonding through Europe with my wife, Ann. We were both twenty-three, young by today’s standards...
Weighing the Books
Hey, everyone! This is Kurtis from the Writing Center. Given we are in the midst of the summer reading season, I thought a post that speaks to the power of books would be fitting...
Take Your Pick: Every Job, No Matter Entry-Level or Beyond, Needs Good Writing—and You Can Take That to the Bank!
“No way do I need to know good writing, man! I’m flipping burgers; perhaps I’ll sign my name to the burgers, but I know how to spell that!” . . . “I’m pulling people...