Taking Notes: The Writer’s Helpful Sidekick
If you do not see the podcast player, click here to listen. Ribeye Jones had a problem, a serious problem, and he couldn’t decide how to solve it. A nonconventional student (he was 38...
Category: Writing-to-learn
The Outline: Would You Build a House Without Blueprints?
If you do not see the podcast player, click here to listen. Louie LeRue spent much of five days researching and scratching out his Final Essay draft for his freshman course, United States Economics: An...
Celebrating Writing
Amy Sexton, MSEd, Writing Tutor Fall means crisp, cooler weather, stunning autumn shows of crimson, rust, and golden leaves, bountiful garden harvests, and, on Friday, October 20, a celebration of writing! October 20 is...
Read and Write Outside the Classroom, Too.
Sara Wink, Purdue University Global Composition Faculty For months, my daughter asked—not quite begging, but close—for a “real bike.” Her Radio Flyer big wheel just barely contained her lanky frame, so it wasn’t an...
The Big Misconception about Writing to Learn
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...