by Devin Jerome Hi y’all! I’m a third-year PhD student in the history department and I would like to share what I’ve learned so far in The Franklin College Writing Intensive Program (WIP). Unlike most of my peers, I am not supporting a writing-intensive class this term. In fact, the course I’m currently supporting is…
by Isnayni Hadi If I were to ask you, “What is mathematical writing?” would you think of an equation or maybe a sequence of symbolic statements? Years of grade-school mathematics has trained us to make that association: math is just a series of solving equations. The curriculum requires us to take algebra, geometry, and a…
by Huck Bagby As my first semester teaching is coming to a close, I find now an opportune time to reflect. I am writing this just after grading the final version of the large experimental report students were asked to write in their lab groups. As my students were mostly new to scientific writing, it…
by Stephanie Andino You have been working on a paper for months now and you feel like the words are just jumbled on the screen in front of you. You have been staring at the same words for what seems like too long, so what do you do? Do you power through? Do you close…