The best endorsement

I’m sitting on pins and needles, waiting to receive the published copy of Writing Matters. I can’t wait! Meanwhile, I am beta-testing select chapters in my own first-year writing course. We’ve worked with the chapters on avoiding plagiarism and organizing an essay, for example, and those class sessions have gone well. I also devoted part of a class session to using hyphens. I explained to the class that hyphen use is not an issue that most faculty mark up a paper for, but that correct... [Read more]