Study With Me! The Value of Virtual Study Sessions
If you do not see the podcast player, click here to listen. We have recently observed a profusion of video content on YouTube depicting users in various acts of academic study. They might be...
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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...
The Academic Support Video Series: A Resource Initiative and Collaboration
By Chrissine Rios, MA, Purdue University Global Writing Center A tutor’s work is highly collaborative. Tutors collaborate with students by nature, but tutors also collaborate with one another, with academic center specialists, and with...
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 podcaster Kurtis Clements who...
Writing Center Resource Spotlight: Power Paragraphs
By Chrissine Rios, MA, Purdue University Global Writing Center Tutor A popular analogy compares paragraphs to building blocks. The analogy helps student writers understand that paragraphs are the units or individual points of a unified...
6 Ultimate Resources on APA and Avoiding Plagiarism
by Chrissine Rios, MA, Kaplan University Writing Center Students frequently ask writing tutors for help with APA citations and formatting as well as how to avoid and understand plagiarism. Instructors, as well, contact...
Why Isn’t My Personal Opinion Good Enough? How to Establish an Educated Opinion in Academic Writing
Terresa Fontana Kaplan University Faculty, Department of Educational Studies I’ve served as a professor in the online college environment, teacher in the high school English and literature classroom, and student through various degree programs....
Forgo Facebook for 15 Minutes and Practice Your Commas!
© 2014 Clipart.com By Jay Busse, Writing Center Tutor Trying to balance family, work, and education, almost all college students are monumentally busy, but how about a little comma practice? You could be forgiven...
What Every Instructor Should Know about Providing Feedback on Writing
By Chrissine Rios, KUWC ELL Support Instructors teaching Writing across the Curriculum (WAC) know that writing and learning go together—writing is a method for acquiring content, and providing feedback on the writer’s purpose, ideas,...