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New infographic to help our graduating English majors make sense of their capstone project.

2 weeks ago

Double Entry Journals: Your Scholarly Research Notes for College-level Critical Thinking

What is a double-entry research journal? Reading with a highlighter in your hand encourages you to agree with or ignore…

3 weeks ago

MLA In-text citations: Writing that got you through high school won’t do in college.

  MLA In-text citations: Writing that got you through high school won’t do in college.

2 months ago

Persuasion: Logos, Pathos, Ethos and Kairos

Persuasion: Logos, Pathos, Ethos and Kairos

2 months ago

Picking a rubric in Canvas should not be so frustrating that it makes me want to blog about it… and yet here we are.

In general, I find Canvas a fairly decent system, but after a particularly frustrating hour wrestling with rubrics, I decided…

4 months ago

MLA Citations: Citation generators make mistakes. Here’s how to spot 5 errors they often make.

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6 months ago

In MLA Style, use the ellipsis only to mark an omission from the middle of a quotation.

If you are writing an academic paper that quotes from an author that uses the ellipsis in a way that…

7 months ago

Students tend to zone out during my lectures on proofreading. I time it so I can say “class dismissed“ as soon as I show that last headline.

7 months ago

“The author talks about [topic]” is filler. Your professors want your college-level ideas.

7 months ago

More Evidence that Choosing a Typeface Is Important

3 years ago

Everyone Nov 1

3 years ago

Toasty Warm Bed (designed by drunk AI neural net)

4 years ago

Woman Yelling at Cat About Academic Argument: an evidence-based defense of a non-obvious position on a complex issue.

See: Academic Argument: Evidence-based Defense of a Non-obvious Position  

4 years ago

If you want to work with words, then journalism courses are very practical options.

6 years ago

Courage Wolf: Write “Could Of” or “Would Of.” I Dare You.

12 years ago

Ironic Quotes

13 years ago

Commonly Misused Words: ALL RIGHT and (Slang) ALRIGHT

For more on ALL RIGHT, ALL READY and ALL TOGETHER, see Grammar Girl. The slang term "alright" is always slang.

13 years ago

Commonly Misused Words: THAN and THEN

 

13 years ago

Commonly Misused Words: ITS and IT’S

13 years ago
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