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Archive for September 29th, 2023

Turnitin as a Writing Tool: The Ins and Outs

If you do not see the podcast player, please click here to listen. Tools amplify human skills and abilities, making complex tasks like building houses easier and quicker, with more […]

Body Paragraphs: Writing the Unsung Heroes for Impact!

If you do not see the podcast player, click here to listen. Oh, this was going to be a great assignment for Zinnia McGillicuddy!  A Creative Writing major, she enjoyed […]

A Two-Pronged Approach To Better Writing: Practice And Reading!

If you do not see the podcast player, click here to listen. Zinnia Tabbleforth was concerned: a junior in college, her major was earth science, and her goal was to work for […]

What a Friendship: The Writer and the Tutor!

If you do not see the podcast player, click here to listen. This was not the best day for Serfeti Alcobar. She was looking at her midterm essay the Economics professor […]

Assignment Mistakes: Beauties to Be Embraced

If you do not see the podcast player, click here to listen. Chin O’Malley was halfway through his Advanced Biology course, and on his computer he had several files open to help […]

To Use “I” or Not to Use “I”: That Is Not Really a Question

“How can I show my experience and opinion without using ‘’I’?” a student recently asked for about the billionth time in my teaching career.  Hi everyone! This is TK from […]

Destroying The He-Himself Syndrome: Getting Rid of Words and Phrases That Are Obvious and Bloat One’s Writing

Let’s see, I need to write about my life. Okay, this is how I’ll start: “To me my life has been, in my honest opinion, actual joy. The life’s experiences […]

Big Changes to Reference List

APA Style 7th edition introduced some big changes to the references list that you will want to keep straight. Let’s start with the nomenclature. The list of references at the […]

New APA Lingo

Shakespeare, loosely paraphrased, once wrote that a rose by any other name is still a rose, and that idea, by extension, now applies to APA Style as familiar terms now […]

First Impressions

First impressions are, after all, first impressions, so setting up your APA formatted title page and header correctly will provide the kind of first impression you want readers to have […]