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by Errol Craig Sull · Published February 3, 2023 · Last modified February 1, 2023
If you do not see the podcast player, click here to listen. Romano Wilmani simply detested any writing. Coming up with a topic was never a problem, and overall she enjoyed doing research when that was...
Grammar / Online Writing Instruction / Resources / Videos
by Purdue Global Academic Success Center and Writing Center · Published May 8, 2014
© 2014 Clipart.com By Jay Busse, Writing Center Tutor Trying to balance family, work, and education, almost all college students are monumentally busy, but how about a little comma practice? You could be forgiven...
Grammar / Online Writing Instruction / WAC Classroom / Writing in Healthcare
by Purdue Global Academic Success Center and Writing Center · Published May 1, 2014 · Last modified April 29, 2014
Viola Robinson, Faculty, Kaplan University School of Health Sciences Note: This is a follow-up blog to: Healthcare Administrative Writing Part Two. Sentence structure is another area Healthcare Administrative professionals must master to communicate effectively. Prior...
Academic Writing / Grammar / Online Writing Instruction / Teaching
by Purdue Global Academic Success Center and Writing Center · Published April 29, 2014 · Last modified April 28, 2014
Melody Pickle, PhD, Kaplan University Writing Center Specialist How do we helps students be better writers? Helping them write clear sentences is one place to start. In order to be successful, students need to...
Grammar / WAC Classroom / Writing in Healthcare
by Purdue Global Academic Success Center and Writing Center · Published April 8, 2014 · Last modified April 2, 2014
Viola Robinson, Faculty, Kaplan University School of Health Sciences Note: This is a follow-up blog to Healthcare Administrative Writing. In high school you were introduced to the eight parts of speech: nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives,...
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by Purdue Global Academic Success Center and Writing Center · Published March 25, 2014 · Last modified March 24, 2014
By Chrissine Rios, KUWC ELL Support Instructors teaching Writing across the Curriculum (WAC) know that writing and learning go together—writing is a method for acquiring content, and providing feedback on the writer’s purpose, ideas,...
Grammar / Online Writing Instruction
by Purdue Global Academic Success Center and Writing Center · Published December 7, 2013
By Melody Pickle, Kaplan University Writing Center, Writing Specialist, WAC The following is a true story and a great teaching moment. This took place as I was helping my eight-year-old son (second grade)...
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by Purdue Global Academic Success Center and Writing Center · Published September 17, 2013 · Last modified September 12, 2013
Students tell tutors what they would never tell their instructors: that their children do their Internet research, that they don’t speak English so are using an online translator, that they made up the...
Academic Writing / Grading / Grammar / Online Writing Instruction / WAC General
by Purdue Global Academic Success Center and Writing Center · Published August 29, 2013 · Last modified August 26, 2013
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 some students when it...
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by Purdue Global Academic Success Center and Writing Center · Published March 4, 2013
Celebrate National Grammar Day in your own (positive) way. Share the grammar tip that helps you the most as you write. You don’t have to love grammar (or even like it) to celebrate the...