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Archive for June 24th, 2022

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 […]

New Video Tutorial: APA 7th Demystified!

Bewildered by APA? Head spinning just thinking about the transition to the 7th edition of the Publication Manual? Fear not! The Writing Center at Purdue Global has rolled out its […]

The Singular “They”

The singular they?! Yes, the singular “they,” as in Everyone learns “their” ABCs or What one doesn’t know can’t hurt “them.” While the singular “they” has been a topic of […]

The Three-Ingredient Thesis Statement

Molly Wright Starkweather, MA, Kaplan University Writing Center Tutor When teaching thesis statements, the standard advice from teaching guides varies depending on the expertise of the student and the content […]

Topic Selection

Dr. Tamara Fudge Professor,  School of Business and Information Technology, Kaplan University   There are some nice benefits to allowing students to pick their own topics for papers. First, there tends […]