by Makeiva Jenkins This year I agreed to be a WIP TA with some reservation. Coming from a background of being a language arts teacher, I realized grading writing is a huge responsibility and takes an astounding amount of energy to process. You can feel the weight of grading and being responsible for the success…
by Victoria Đỗ Of the habits I have encountered in students’ writing, the issue I was struck by most this semester was “wordiness.” In particular, the style of overly formal, quasi-authoritative language that employs jargon more for its style than its substance. Perhaps because reading this type of writing is like reliving my early days…
by Osvaldo Maldonado As a young boy, I always had a deep interest in the sciences and was an avid reader of scientific books. My interest only gradually grew throughout my educational journey, which transformed into a passion: becoming a scientist. Indubitably, to become a great scientist, one must be able to effectively communicate their…
by Fernán Cerrón-Palomino This semester I took on the challenge of assisting a professor in a course that was a part of the Writing Intensive Program. As a Spanish instructor, I had taught up to 3000 level classes but this one was a 4000 level course, so I didn’t know what to expect. To be…