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Archive for June 24th, 2014

4 Practical Tips for Writing with an Academic Voice

Patricia Drown, Kaplan University Faculty, Social And Behavioral Sciences Nothing can put fear in to the heart faster than the prospect of academic writing. Our mind immediately fills with pictures […]

Five Steps to Writing with Mindfulness

Kathleen A. Bishop, MS, PhD, Kaplan University Health Sciences Faculty Today is the day I’ve decided to write my first blog post for the KUWC, and like all writers I […]

Hooking Your Readers with Some Help from Jaws

David Healey, Kaplan University Composition Faculty Hooking your readers turns out to have a lot in common with pretending to be a shark. One of my favorite childhood memories is […]

Top Five Ways to Get Out of the Teaching Rut

By Misty Brannan, Criminal Justice Professor, Kaplan University As in any job, teachers can find themselves going through the motions of their career without a real love or energy for it. […]

How to Write a Sentence: Helping Students be Better Writers

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 […]

Teaching the Egg Before the Chicken – Paraphrasing Before Citation

By Sandra Maenz, Kaplan University Composition Instructor The problem with teaching APA is the old chicken and egg issue. It seems that too many educators think citations when they teach […]

Composition MOOC Resources: Another Reason to Like the KUWC Facebook

by Chrissine Rios 2013 marked a year of collaboration, innovation, and progress for the KUWC with a new website and Plagiarism Information Page, a new full-time tutor, Amy Sexton, and […]

Farm Feast: Recipes for Writing Success

  by Molly Wright Starkweather, Kaplan University Writing Center When I was still living near family in the South, I got to help my grandmother prepare for a New Year’s […]

My First Date

by David Werner, MFA, Kaplan University Faculty I was in love.  Or so I thought.  I wanted to ask Patti (not her real name) to a ninth-grade dance but could never […]

But the Sentence is Grammatically Correct . . .

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 […]