Education

If you’re looking for ways to strengthen your writing right away, one of the best places to start is by using plain language. So…What is Plain Language? “Plain language” is a term often used by professional writers to describe writing that is easily understood by most people the first time

Punctuation matters. It provides rhythm and cadence to our sentences. It gives our words and phrases rhetorical emphasis, power, and pith. Most importantly, perhaps, punctuation provides clarity; it makes distinctions, separates ideas, and…it gives dramatic pauses. But so many fear the punctuation marks. They only use what’s familiar: the periods,

With the nearly universal decision coming last week to transition schools and universities to online instruction amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, educators across the globe—myself included—are finding themselves scrambling to convert their otherwise face-to-face courses to online. Some great resources have come out in the last few days to help teachers

Two years ago, I was sitting in the back of four-seater tuk-tuk (which is basically a two-wheeled cart pulled behind a moped) in Cambodia with three of my online graduate students. If ever there was a time for me to have an ah-hah! pedagogy moment, that was it. I was

I’ve done similar punctuation infographics in the past (check out The 15 Punctuation Marks, the 69 Rules for Using Punctuation, and the Periodic Table of Punctuation), but I wondered how the many rules of punctuation would look if broken down into a treemap. So here it is! Wait…but’s what’s a

A couple weeks ago, I developed a revised infographic, “Can I Use That Picture?,” flowchart that guides you through the process of using images legally and ethically. Too often, I get questions that go something like this: “Wait, I can’t use an image I found on Google for a PowerPoint