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As the Thesis Whisperer matures, students who look to it for support are starting to graduate. I always love to hear about their experiences and created the "Dear Thesis Whisperer" section to publi... 
What will digital literacy mean in five years? More to the point, will you be ready for it? As a knowledge worker, you have a set of skills that people – enterprise customers, business managers, your boss, your followers – value ... 
I am an advocate of experimenting with new forms of academic communication, and I believe teachers and students should be actively exploring how to reach traditional aims of academic writing, but not merely through the ... In my training course in becoming a tutor at my campus writing center next fall, included in our weekly reading was Nancy Barron and Nancy Grimm's article “Addressing Racial Diversity in a Writing Center: Stories and ... 
The Value Of Writing A ThesisNYU LocalThere were many nights when I, and most of my fellow thesis writers, desperately regretted writing one. My thesis was, without a doubt, the most challenging assignment of my academic career. 
ChicagoNow (blog)If You Teach or Write 5-Paragraph Essays–Stop It! 
Should Mamas Let Their Babies Grow up to Study Writing? Setting the Record ...Huffington Post (blog)Dianne Donnelly, Ph.D., is the editor of Does the Writing Workshop Still Work? 
Danny Rubin, guest writing at Lifehacker, makes my point very well. I think the days of traditional academic writing are over. Maybe they have been for a long time, yet we academics seem to be blind to the fact. 
Where Walden University's tutors and editors talk writing. Writing Center Website. Click here to access the main Walden Writing Center website. ... By Hillary Wentworth, Writing Consultant. Many students are scared of Turnitin, ... 
ScientistOpinion: Academia Suppresses CreativityScientistBecause the success rate is now down to 10 percent, academic scientists are forced to spend much of their time writing proposals, rather than performing creative research. 
Vince's seven steps to academic writing success. Vince Ricci, Part-time Lecturer | The University of Tokyo | Center for Innovation in Engineering Education (CIEE) | English for Engineers and Scientists | Special thanks to ... What's the first thing you'd do if you were asked to write in a new form for an unfamiliar audience?... |
The Writing ProgramDePauw UniversityAs a first-year student, Sam K. Rumbach '15 was part of a pilot program that helped him make the significant and often challenging transition from academic writing in high school to college writing. 13/05/2012 (#acwri chat on academic writing next Thur @ 6pm on #blogs & #blogging.)... 
Scientific American (blog)Writing about patients: lessons from first yearScientific American (blog)She was a science reporter for The News & Observer in Raleigh, North Carolina via the AAAS Mass Media Fellowship and then went on to write for... 
Emerson and Thoreau Lost in the Twilight of the 21st CenturySeattle Post Intelligencer (blog)In fact, he was now the director of the newly created and popular Master of Fine Arts program in Creative Writing although he had only ever published one ... 
During my conferences at the Writing Center I often ask writers to consider how deeply they need to explain a term or topic in terms of the audience they are writing to. “Who is your audience?” I'll ask them, “Who are you writing ... 
Young writers learn power of words to navigate futureThe TennesseanDipti Vaidya / The Tennessean • Saturday: Frist Center for the Visual Arts, 919 Broadway. 2 pm Free. • Thursday: Nashville Public Library, 615 Church St. 
Another motto that floats around the university is one that originates from my university's writing center: “We can help with any writing, at any level, for any class.” Being one of the center's tutors as well as a chemistry major, ... 
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Turnitin Study Reveals 10 Most Frequent and Problematic Types of Plagiarism in ...MarketWatch (press release)According to instructors, blatant plagiarism--submitting another's writing word-for-word as one's own--is the most prevalent and... 
Program hopes digital media will boost student performanceNorthwest HeraldBy BRETT ROWLAND - browland@shawmedia.com CRYSTAL LAKE – A pilot program teaching eighth-graders the art of digital storytelling aims to improve writing test scores without... 
Her presentation entitled 'Confronting the challenges of teaching and learning academic writing at the University of Guyana' sought to outline some of the many writing challenges that have surfaced among students. |
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