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Archive for June 8th, 2016

Resource Spotlight: 3 NEW Effective Writing Podcasts

By Chrissine Rios, MA, Purdue University Global Writing Center, Tutor Until this week, Purdue University Global (Purdue Global) Composition students have had exclusive access to three new Effective Writing Podcasts from […]

Writing to Make a Difference

Stephanie Thompson Composition Professor, Kaplan University I have been teaching composition for over 20 years in a variety of settings, both at brick-and-mortar and online schools. One constant across the […]

When Students Write About Personal Pain

By Teresa Kelly, Kaplan University Composition Faculty As family, friends, colleagues, and fans worldwide mourn the death of comedy legend Robin Williams from suicide on August 11, composition instructors face another […]

Virtual Textbooks: Reading in Cyberspace

Christina Duffman, Kaplan University Instructor of English “I would say that, in the future, the book will be reserved for things that function best as a book. So, if I […]

Addicting Students to Prewriting

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 […]