by Richard Milligan In the iconic Cold War American military drama Top Gun, the most renowned pilot in an elite flight training school, Cougar, played by John Stockwell, remarks: “I’m holding on too tight, I’ve lost the edge.” In my experience as a Writing Intensive Program (WIP) coach, I have had a welcome opportunity to reflect…
by Sandra Mcgury While almost all undergraduate students take composition courses during their first year in college, native speakers (L1ers) enter WIP classes with a more valuable advantage than just these classes: they have been practicing writing ever since they entered elementary school. However, in order to produce a great writing, even native speakers need to…
by Anna Conti Since I was a triple major in Latin, Classics, and Greek as an undergraduate, writing had always been a part of my college experience, and I seldom had a class that didn’t include at least one paper at some point in the process. However, writing had always been a source of stress for…
by Melissa Whatley I certainly never set out to be a writing coach. As an undergraduate Spanish major and even as a Master’s student, I saw myself as an educator in my foreign language instructor role, but I never thought that one day my job would involve teaching native English speakers how to use their own…