Teaching / Teaching college writing
by Purdue Global Academic Success Center and Writing Center · Published June 29, 2016 · Last modified March 27, 2018
Jan Stallard, Purdue University Global Composition Professor When students ask “When will I ever use this again?” I always have an answer. When I began graduate school, my mentor had a cartoon pinned...
APA / Grading / Online Writing Instruction / Teaching college writing / Technology and Writing
by Purdue Global Academic Success Center and Writing Center · Published May 4, 2016 · Last modified October 7, 2020
By Chrissine Rios, MA, Purdue University Global Writing Center Are you one of them? Do you space like it’s an exact science? Do you bypass 2.0 on the spacing shortcut and go straight for...
Online Writing Instruction / Poetry / teacher resources / Teaching college writing / WAC Classroom
by Purdue Global Academic Success Center and Writing Center · Published April 20, 2016 · Last modified March 27, 2018
By Chrissine Rios, MA, Purdue University Global Writing Center While we work with our students toward effective sentences, they (we!) create outcomes, and one of the most important yet least considered of these is...
Online Writing Instruction / Teaching college writing
by Purdue Global Academic Success Center and Writing Center · Published October 14, 2015 · Last modified October 13, 2015
by Chrissine Rios, MA, Kaplan University Writing Center Every month I post to this blog, and every month I don’t know what to write, so I thought this time I’d ask you. How can...
Online Writing Instruction / Teaching college writing
by Purdue Global Academic Success Center and Writing Center · Published July 1, 2015 · Last modified July 2, 2015
Amy Sexton, Kaplan University Writing Center Tutor Providing effective feedback on students’ writing can be challenging, especially when we consider what we want students to be able to do based on our feedback. As...
Teaching college writing / Writing Across the Curriculum / Writing Center Pedagogy / Writing-to-learn
by Purdue Global Academic Success Center and Writing Center · Published June 10, 2015
By Chrissine Rios, MA, Kaplan University Writing Center Who’s heard this one before? “I can’t write.” In the twenty years that I’ve been tutoring writing, I’ve heard it a bunch. Even if you’ve been...