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Archive for October 19th, 2013

Two-Faced Blogging

Lisa Gerardy, Writing Center Specialist, Kaplan University Many writing instructors, tutors, and other educational professionals have blogs.  These blogs are generally professional blogs that discuss topics relating to the writers’ […]

National Day of Writing October 20

by Melody Pickle, Writing Specialist, WAC, Kaplan University Writing Center Yes, there is an official National Day of Writing!  October 20th is the official National Day of Writing.  Here in […]

Writing is Rewriting

Lisa Gerardy, Writing Center Specialist, Kaplan University Recently, Kaplan University Writing Center Specialist, Melody Pickle wrote a great blog entitled Don’t Listen to your English Teacher. In her blog, Melody […]

Jame Patterson: Don’t Listen to Your English Teacher

Melody Pickle, Writing Specialist, WAC, Kaplan University Writing Center In this 6 minute interview, James Patterson tells what he has learned so far about writing.  He covers the following ideas: […]

Logos – Pathos – Ethos – Oh My! Podcast 31

By Melody Pickle, Writing Specialist, WAC, Kaplan University Join Kurtis Clements for another Effective Writing Podcast- The Three Appeals of Argumentative Writing as he explains clear strategies for using Logos, Ethos, and […]

Wikis: Why and Why Not? Can we use Wikis for Academic Research?

Ann Reich, Kaplan University, Composition Faculty On May 28, 2013, I gave a presentation entitled “Wikis: Why and Why Not?” at the 2013 Conference of the IJAS, The International Journal […]

Reinterpreting the ‘Self’ in Online Higher Education

Kyle Harley,  KUWC Tutor As online educators, we all reshape our identified ‘self’ when transitioning from on-site teaching to an online medium. In my role as tutor, this transition was […]

The Who of the Writing Center

Melody Pickle, Ph.D.  Writing Specialist, WAC, Kaplan University I have been thinking this week about the work we do in the Kaplan University Writing Center.  I suppose in many ways […]

Diversity in the Online Classroom

by Rathi Krishnan, Full-time faculty, Department of Composition, School of General Education, Kaplan University I presented at the IJAS   — International Journal of Arts and Sciences Conference on  May, 28th., 2013, which […]

Celebrating Freedom with Twitter

By Melody Pickle Did you know that the British Communication Act forbids electronic communication “for the purpose of causing annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety to another , , ,” When […]