Compiled by Lisa Gerardy, MA, Writing Center Specialist Last month, we began publishing tutor interviews so that our readers could get to know the people who make the Academic Support […]
Molly Wright Starkweather, MA, Kaplan University Writing Center Tutor “Why should we as tutors prioritize the emotional issues of our students?” This is a question that comes from a healthy […]
Compiled by Lisa Gerardy, MA, Writing Center Specialist The Kaplan University Academic Support Center blog will be featuring periodic tutor introductions. We hope this will give our readers a […]
Molly Starkweather, Kaplan University Writing Center Tutor The first part of this two-part entry explored the possible identities online students construct when engaging in synchronous tutoring that only uses text […]
Kyle Harley, Kaplan University Writing Center Tutor Accountability is a wonderful word that is used quite a bit in higher education. In recent weeks, I wrestled with the idea of accountability within […]
Molly Wright Starkweather, Writing Center Tutor, Kaplan University This blog entry is the first of a two-entry discussion around anonymity as a productive starting point for online students wishing to […]
Molly Wright Starkweather, Kaplan University Tutor Recently a group of writing center workers from the Southeastern Writing Center Association put together a collection of music titled “Write It Like Disaster,” […]
Molly Wright Starkweather, Kaplan University Tutor There is an old quotation from Mark Twain about word choice: “The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the […]
Kyle Harley, Kaplan University Tutor I think it is safe to say that we have all experienced extremely tight deadlines. Since being out of school, however, I rarely take a […]
Molly Wright Starkweather, Kaplan University Tutor So often in high school and college writing classes, student writers are told that if they want to produce a quality paper, they […]
