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Archive for June 8th, 2012

Pay Up! Plagiarism Costs $500

This must see video records an incident in which a blogger kindly but firmly requests payment for his work from a newspaper who plagiarized an entire article from his blog […]

Why WAC is Really About Collaboration and Touching Interests beyond Your Content Area.

Why WAC is Really About Collaboration and Touching Interests beyond Your Content Area. As Sheryl Bone and I put the final changes on our presentation for the International Writing Across […]

Where we’ve been … where we’re going: it’s going to be a heck of a ride

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 […]

Last Chance for May Workshops!

There are two more chances for students to attend live workshops this month.  Please let your students know about these opportunities. Where to Learn More About Plagiarism: Review KUWC Resources […]

Punctuation is Not Grammar. . .

The terms grammar and punctuation are often used interchangeably.  While we use both grammar and punctuation to clearly explicate our ideas for our readers, they are not the same. Simplified […]

APA Is Not Grammar

…and grammar is not APA… Both APA and grammar influence how we read a paper, and they can both be factors when grading. However, it can really help students if […]

“My Professor said I need to learn to how to write at the college level…

“My Professor said I need to learn how to write at the College Level.”   These are the first words a student said to me during a recent tutoring session. I […]

KU Radio Writing Month

This month Kaplan Radio will feature radio spots from the Kaplan University Writing Center.  These brief 30-second spots explain KUWC resources and services. Here are a few of the radio spots that […]

Writing Workshops Focus on Outlines and Drafting…APA, too

The March writing workshop series provides five workshops designed to help students create appropriate outlines for various types of writing and then move from outline to their first draft.  Organization […]

New APA Resource

The KU Writing Center continually works to update our APA resources and put them in formats that are accessible to a variety of learners and that are easy to use. […]