by Arielle Crumley As a teaching assistant in the Writing Intensive Program, I am constantly reading student writing. Though it is time consuming work, one of the joys of this opportunity is watching students explore their own thoughts and ideas and communicate them through their writing. For writers, sharing our writing can makes us feel…
by Ben Washington It was August of 2014. I was just beginning the first semester of my senior year at the University of Georgia. As a mathematics and statistics double major, I had managed to avoid writing for the large part of three years, a feat of which I was rather proud. A few months…
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 Alison Redman Last week, my students completed the first step of their big essay project—the proposal and annotated bibliography. In collaboration with my supervising professor, we gave them a degree of freedom in choosing their topics, but we provided the resources that would make up their bibliographies. On the assignment sheet, we had simply…