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I thought today’s presentation on differently-abled students was enlightening in a variety of ways, the first being I didn’t know we even had a resource center for disabled students, let alone had I ever been there or to their website.  The discussion of the most common learning...

elenbaasbarbra
4 days 21 hours ago

whenever i feel sick or have any sort of symptoms of illness, i tend to diagnose myself. i will go on webmd and target the problem area, decide which of the symptoms i actually have, and read the descriptions of the possibilities. at this point i start convincing myself that i really could have...

cari r
4 days 21 hours ago
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I was absent from class today, so I am just going to blog about other content we have been dealing with throughout the semester. Lately I have been specifically thinking about consulting creative writing in comparison with acedemic writing, an issue we discussed a few classes back. As a class,...

Kate M
4 days 21 hours ago

What is it about us that simply must know what the writer’s point is? Why can’t we be content to go along for the ride? My impression from Fox is that this idea is tied to the typical Western worldview. Do we weave an illusion through our idea of good writing? The academic essay gets to the...

caleb
4 days 22 hours ago

Before I write this post, I should preface it with this statement: I was trained at the WC back in 2007, so the methods I was taught may be quite different from the methods currently being taught.

Anyway.

I know that the standard procedure, when working with any student, often...

Lisa
4 days 22 hours ago

So after reading Sarah’s post I began to think about whether or not I would classify myself as a writer. There is something about this time of the year around the holidays with probing family members, that make every English/PW major a bit uncomfortable. There’s always the questions about what...

kburns
4 days 22 hours ago

Recently, more than previous semesters and years, there has been a degree of entitlement that has pushed countless droves of students in and out the doors of the Writing Center and into its respective satilittes looking for thier "stamp." While normally, and in the past, I have found a teacher...

Tiffany
4 days 23 hours ago

I am a writer.

 

Why is that so hard to say? I have only recently come to grips with it. I think it's because:

 

saldrich32
4 days 23 hours ago

We had some guest presenters today who talked to us about the resource center for persons with disabilities. It turns out that this center is located right in Bessie. However, I had no idea that they existed until today. It was good to find out that we do have this resource on campus, and...

Kimberly
4 days 23 hours ago

Today in our WRA 395 class, Virginia Rutan, Al Puzzuoli, and Stephen Blosser visited us from the Resource Center for Persons with Disabilities. I found their presentation to be extremely interesting and beneficial. To help us understand how a person with a disability might struggle with an in-...

trumbl17
5 days 2 hours ago