A look back at the month.

We're upgrading the news feed on the main page of our website! This feed will continue to include Writing Center announcements such as holiday closings, technical issues with our various instructional platforms, and updates to services.

Additionally, I will be adding a brief summary at the end of each month about new resources, updated information, and other changes relating to the website. Please check out these postings to learn about new content! This first installment will include changes to the site in both January and February of this year.

You can also click on the date and title of each post for a permalink.

New content

• Basil Considine joined the staff as an editor on December 30, 2013, and I added his photo and bio to the Meet Our Staff page.
• We also welcomed Al Muftau Adeite, Alexis Stinson, Olawunmi Obisesan, and Ryan Henson as administrative writing assistants to the Writing Center in January, and I added a new page with photos and bios of these graduate students who are helping out in the Writing Center: Meet Our Administrative Writing Assistants.
• With our switch from Go to Meeting as a webinar platform to Adobe Connect, we added new technical information on how to get your computer ready to use Connect and on how to participate in webinars: Webinar Technical Information.
• We added new faculty webinars for the upcoming months.
• We announced a hiatus for our TutorTalk service.
• We added a resource for undergraduates to break down the steps and time necessary to complete a course paper: Assignment Planner.

Updated and corrected content

• We updated templates for the EdD and DBA project studies to remove extraneous style tags for headings that do not appear in the table of contents. This change is not a major one, but it should eliminate some confusion for future students about which style tags to use.
• We updated the webpage and associated PDF handout about tables and figures to clarify information about copyright and permissions.
• I updated the bio for our writing instructor, Hillary Wentworth, on the Meet Our Staff page.
• We updated the Instructions for DBA template document, available on the DBA Doctoral Study page and the templates page.
• We updated links to Grammarly's page about their services and our own Grammarly tutorial handout.
• We corrected our handout on using automated table of contents to clarify that only APA Level 0, 1, and 2 headings should appear in the table of contents for dissertations and doctoral studies.
• We updated the student success course descriptions to match the current catalog's descriptions.

Other news

• Look for more updates and changes in the next year as we do an audit of the contents of our site to make sure that all of the information is up to date, accurate, and useful.
• We are also exploring other types of resources, some of which are very exciting to us, so stay tuned for those to debut in the coming months!