There’s a ton going on with professional development this semester. You can find articles for all the teaching discussions and more info about the seminars here: http://www.montana.edu/wwwdg/seminar.html
Sept 29th–Teaching Roundtable Discussion (SUB 235, 4pm) Dealing with Student Problems/Problem Students
Oct 13th–Teaching Roundtable Discussion (SUB 235, 4pm) Active Learning in a Large Lecture
Oct 27th–Teaching Roundtable Discussion (SUB 168, 4pm)Working [...]
Hello, grad students,
Thesis/dissertation deadline has come and gone for a lot of you–congratulations! For those students who are continuing their study into the summer or into next year, I wanted to let you know that tutoring services are available during the summer months. There are a lot fewer students around in the summer, so my [...]
Hi everyone,
I wanted to share a few events and pieces of information with you all.
On February 17th at 11am in SUB 233 there will be a Public Speaking seminar brought to you by the Division of Graduate Education. Toastmaster Tom Stenzel will be your host and offer advice and strategies dealing with public speaking. As [...]
October is the month of many things. It’s fall (or winter, in Montana); it’s far enough in your semester that the work has hit a busy stride. As the graduate writing tutor, it is my busiest month. Not only do student appointments increase, but I am also hosting a Graduate Writing Seminar [...]
Welcome to a new semester. During your graduate studies at MSU, I hope that you take advantage of all the services the university offers. Writing assistance is one of the services offered through the Division of Graduate Education. It is important to be a clear, efficient, effective writer, both during school and after, in your [...]
During the summer months, it’s hard to get motivated to write or work on projects. Often we, as writers, students, and professionals, want to take the summer off. We think that there is so much time between now and the new semester or deadline. What we all know deep-down, however, is that [...]
I’ve been sending out grad writing email tips and thought I’d post them to the site for those of you not on the grad student listserv.
Commas have been coming up a lot in my tutoring sessions lately, so I thought I’d provide a link to a helpful website. The comma is one of the more confusing pieces of punctuation, but there are really a few main uses of it.
One use is list-making, which a lot of us do in [...]