College Writing

Book Review: Why They Can’t Write

Killing the Five-Paragraph Essay and other Necessities By: Bethany Chappel, M.Ed. Students across America sit at their desks in classrooms with teachers who have been given clear expectations about the written work that these students should be able to produce, namely in the form of...

The Academic Circle of Life & Excellent Usage of Commas

by Laura Yeager There is a great circle of life that occurs at the university. Years ago, when I was in graduate school at Iowa State University, I was studying.

Plagiarism Doesn’t Bother Me

by Gerald Nelms When I began teaching back in the early 1980s, any student plagiarizing upset me a lot. I experienced exactly what Richard Murphy describes in his 1990 College English article,.

Don’t Poke Me: Professors’ Privacy In The Age Of Facebook

By Rich Russell Before seeing the new movie The Social Network this past weekend, I first read the article on co-founder Mark Zuckerberg in The New Yorker. His own Facebook profile is quoted in the piece: “I am trying to make the world a...