by Matt Bloodgood Throughout my educational career, I have always thought of myself as an effective writer. People told me I was an effective writer. Was I? Or was I just good enough to appear to be more effective than those around me? On rereading some of my own work, I lean toward the latter.…
by Trevor Ramsey The Writing Intensive Program at UGA provides a service to students that I took for granted due to my academic experiences. By giving students explicit training in writing and providing them with low stakes assignments, they learn not only about writing, but also the specific conventions in their respective fields of study. Including…
by Rich Ross When I heard about the Writing Intensive Program at the University of Georgia, I pretty quickly became a believer. I support the WIP principles, and since my graduate work emphasizes collaboration in the sciences, I wanted to use this space to speak about the following WIP principle: Teaching writing in math, science,…
by Megan Neely I have long taken for granted my ability to talk about art. I enjoy describing how the seemingly innocuous features of a painting or sculpture can be imbued with ideas of enormous gravity. The skill of merging the historical contexts of a work and its actual imagery is a requisite part of…