Writing is always changing, and so are the conversations surrounding it. Here you can find posts, reflections, and research-informed writing from our staff on topics that are currently shaping writing centers and student writing.
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Am I Tired of Writing? Yes, But That’s the Point
By Ash Jones, Writing Consultant When your whole world revolves around writing, do you still have words to say? When you take similar writing courses, aren’t your essays and reflections recycled from previous thoughts? All you do is write poetry in your spare time, are you out of hyperboles? Why even buy another notebook to…
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Training for a Paper: Tackling Long Writing Assignments as a Student-Athlete
By: Taylor Kondel, Graduate Writing Consultant As a former collegiate student-athlete, I know quickly a week’s schedule can fill up. Between classes, practices, games/tournaments, lifts, traveling, studying, and trying to have some social life outside of it all, finding time to write a long paper can feel almost impossible. Sometimes it seems like the only…
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Utilizing the PICOT Question for Research-Based Writing
By Grace DeBerardino, Writing Consultant As a nursing student, I have had to write a handful of systemic reviews, which is just a fancy way of saying I wrote papers analyzing several research articles. When it comes to writing any type of research paper, the most helpful tool I have learned is to use the…
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Working through Writer’s Block
By Oswald Adam, Writing Consultant As a striving author and passionate creative writer, motivation and writer’s block are my biggest enemies. It seems I always need to be in the right place, time, weather, temperature- just for a chance to start writing consistently! And even then there is a fifty percent chance I will just…
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Working Toward Accessible Course Design
By Dr. Erin Bell, Director Although the need for accessible materials has grown in tandem with the number of our neurodiverse learners, McAlvage & Rice (2018) enumerated a list of well-known colleges and universities that are still lagging in terms of providing accessible content, even though as the authors report, the Americans with Disabilities Act…