Here at the Writing Center, we don’t just encourage you to bring us academic writing; we also ALWAYS encourage you to bring creative writing! While creative writing is all fun and dandy, sometimes it’s difficult to know where to start, especially if you want your work to be seen by others. Fear not, young grasshoppers!…
Surprisingly, baking and writing have more to do with each other than you might think. As a late-night stress-expelling baker and a scribble-on-the-napkin English major writer, I’ve found that my two passions actually compliment each other very well as all of my oven-on-fire moments and deliciously successful dishes have taught me invaluable lessons about writing.…
Chicago Manual Style. Though you may hope that your professor is requesting that you turn in a deep dish pizza with your finished essay, this is not the case. [caption id=\"attachment_1601\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"338\"] Image courtesy of cookdiary.net[/caption] While Chicago style formatting is not as delicious as deep dish pizza, it is no cause for alarm.…
So it’s the second half of the semester and it has finally occurred to you that you have some serious research papers to do. Be they on the process of De-Stalinization of Khrushchev or the Mating Habits of African Tree Frogs, you are realizing very quickly that you have never researched or written a paper…
If you’re an auditory learner, it’s easy to feel like the world of writing help just isn’t designed for you. A Google search for paper-writing tips can turn up suggestions from color-coding to mind-mapping; those are great, you think, but when you’re one of those people who can remember names but can’t match them to…
Commas are probably the second most feared punctuation mark in the English language, right next to the semicolon. There are lots of myths floating around about when you should and should not use commas. We’re here to set the record straight. Whenever you have a question concerning whether or not you should use a comma,…