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...
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Reflections on Tutor Research and Lessons Learned
By Chrissine Rios, Kaplan University Writing Center I took a Teacher Research course during the first semester of my graduate program. I would be teaching composition as a graduate assistant the following semester, so...
Learning to Adapt – Lessons from IWAC 2012
Learning to Adapt – Lessons from IWAC 2012 Last week, I posted about how driving in the City of Savannah, site of the 2012 IWAC Conference, reminded me of some of the challenges faculty...
IWAC 2012 – How driving in Savannah relates to WAC
Last week, I attended and presented at the 2012 International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference in Savannah, Georgia. I have many thoughts about the conference itself and about the presentation I gave with my...
Where we’ve been … where we’re going: it’s going to be a heck of a ride
T.S. Eliot once wrote, “The end is where we start from.” I’ve been thinking about that line a great deal since learning I was going to be coming back to Composition and the WAC...
Conference Opportunities Galore!
When the student is ready, the master appears. ~Buddhist Proverb Hello, readers! I know that September is a busy, back-to-school month for many of us. However, nothing motivates and inspires me more (beyond teaching...