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Tag Archives: critical thinking

College Writing Tips: Check Your Logic


My teaching career began in the fall of 1997 when a faculty member experienced a heartache about a week before the semester began. During the intervening years between then and today, my peers, colleagues, and even those in business & industry, have noticed a tremendous decline in people’s ability to write. Recently, I spent many…

April 30, 2013 in Education, Higher Education, Online Learning, Teaching.

College Writing Tips: Respect Yourself and Spell-Check Yourself


My teaching career began in the fall of 1997 when a faculty member experienced a heartache about a week before the semester began. During the intervening years between then and today, my peers, colleagues, and even those in business & industry, have noticed a tremendous decline in people’s ability to write. Recently, I spent many…

April 29, 2013 in Education, Geography, Higher Education, Online Learning, Teaching.

College Writing Tips: Respond to both X and Y


My teaching career began in the fall of 1997 when a faculty member experienced a heartache about a week before the semester began. During the intervening years between then and today, my peers, colleagues, and even those in business & industry, have noticed a tremendous decline in people’s ability to write. Recently, I spent many…

April 28, 2013 in Assessment, Education, Geography, Higher Education, Online Learning, Teaching.

People Don’t Talk With Punctuation


My teaching career spans only twenty-years. I have not “heard it all” nor have I “seen it all.” Judging by writing samples which continue to cross my desk I will never achieve either. Interestingly enough, my mentors, with perhaps a decade or so more teaching experience than I, have also not exhausted anecdotes on the…

March 2, 2013 in Assessment, Education, Higher Education, Teaching.
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