#ThankfulThursday New Semester
I am incredibly grateful for this Spring 2020 semester, which brought me the opportunity to teach three classes at another local institution. We are now entering Week Five of classes, and I’m enjoying reading my students’ individual stories. I always appreciate a good story, especially when the writer brings the details to life with text. In addition to having a…
#WordlessWednesday For the Love of Flowers
#TutoringTuesday Run-on Sentences
I learned most of my grammar skills prior to high school. I’ve always enjoyed writing stories or expressing my thoughts through written language. So, imagine my dismay when I began tutoring and then instructing students who didn’t possess the same knowledge of basic grammar. At the collegiate level, I hoped to find less instances of comma splices, fused sentences, and…
#MondayMotivation Happy Belated New Year!
After taking the month of January off with zero guilt, I feel refreshed and ready restart my blogging. This year, I selected the word “OPEN” to guide me through 2020 — this is a practice that Susannah Conway has so graciously shared with the world, and I highly recommend her “Find Your Word” practice. This year I will be open…
#ThankfulThursday Answers and Results
This week I’m incredibly grateful that I earned a 5.0 (92nd percentile) on my analytical writing portion of the GRE; a 158 (80th percentile) on the verbal portion; and a 148 (30th percentile) on the quantitative (math) portion. These results indicate my writing skills can complete a dissertation, my reading comprehension and vocabulary are ready to absorb advanced materials, and…
#TutoringTuesday Writing An Essay
Need a little guidance to get started on that essay? Take it from someone who’s earned As and Bs on essays and a 5.0 on the GRE — you’ll want to use some commonsense and a bit of strategy. You’ll need an introduction paragraph and a conclusion paragraph, but the number of body paragraphs depends on your specific assignment. Start…
#MotivationalMonday Course Content Creation
Last week I completed my Blackboard training and earned certification to teach web-enhanced and online courses. I picked up a second class for the spring semester, which will be completely web-based. This week I hope to begin the process of loading content to the courses’ web-shells in preparation for January. I remember what appealed most to me during my Master’s…