by Lauren Copelan “Academic writing isn’t creative and creative writing isn’t academic.” Says who? The learned dichotomy between creative and academic writing privileges one form of writing over the other. We are taught that there is a time and a place for both, but that college is the place for academic writing only (save a…
by Mallory Lind Due to the positivist standardized testing strategies of most schools in America laid out by programs like No Child Left Behind, many students have come of age thinking that making a certain grade is the only thing that matters in their schooling. This leaves students with a severe lack of intrinsic motivation…
by Cameron Steuart At this point in the year, the students in my Music in the Twentieth-Century course are just getting started with the first assignment that will eventually build to an end-of-term paper. For this component, they have to provide me with a topic and an abstract that is focused on methodology. In anticipation…