By Chrissine Rios, KUWC Writing Tutor Thesis-support essay organization is standard in academic writing, yet it doesn’t come naturally to all students. Essay organization reflects the way we organize thoughts, […]
Kyle Harley, Tutor, Kaplan University Writing Center “The Grammar Hammer,” as a former professor of mine once said, flattens out any and all possibility for exploration and exposure with […]
By Galia Fussell and Fran Gregg Surprisingly, many students do not connect thinking with writing, so prewriting is not part of their repertoire. Instead, a number of students announce that […]
Kaplan University Writing Center Workshops are alive and well this summer. Don’t forget to join us. Live workshops are open to all Kaplan students and faculty. To find the links […]
By Melody Pickle One question we see in the KUWC is “Do I include the Database name in my citation?” Well, as with most aspects of APA, there is not […]
By Melody Pickle, Ph.D, KUWC Writing Specialist, WAC Learning to write in an academically acceptable research style is a complex writing task. To complete this task student writers must step outside […]
By Carrie Hannigan, M.S. Having taught composition and technical writing courses for over eight years, I feel I have a pretty good grasp on grammar and mechanics, though I freely […]
By Joni Boone Incorporating research into papers and projects is a difficult task for many students, and learning to paraphrase is a key component of that task. I often find […]
Whenever I received a writing assignment in college, one of the first pieces of information I looked for was the page length requirement. When one wasn’t provided, or when an […]
One of my new graduate students in the English Language Learner (ELL) Tutoring and Outreach Program forwarded an email to me from her professor to show that she was given […]
