by Gretchen | Mar 4, 2013 | Writing
It’s typical in our education system for teachers and professors to assign essays that need to be a specific word count (500 words, for example) or a specific length (3 pages, for example). Although I understand the need to set some kind of expectation for the...
by Gretchen | Nov 19, 2012 | Academic Coaching, Writing
How do you go more deeply when you are writing a paper? It’s one of those catch 22’s, isn’t it. Don’t you think you WOULD engage in more critical thinking if only you knew HOW?! Today I was working with a college sophomore who had just finished...
by Gretchen | Sep 4, 2009 | Academic Coaching
From Academic Coaching There’s an area of my professional life about which I’ve been strangely silent on this blog: my life as an academic coach for teens. I’m not sure why I’ve been so tightlipped about this amazing work; maybe I’m...