by Jordan T. Long Public administrators must be comfortable living in the eye of the storm. Conflicting expectations swirl around us in our jobs: responsibility v. accountability, politics v. management, complying with rules v. flexing our own discretion, equity v. efficiency, speed v. accuracy, etc. We are expected to satisfy all of these requirements and more in…
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 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…