Hi, all! My name is Sylvia Newman, and I manage the Weber State University Writing Center in Ogden, Utah. I'm looking forward to being part of the Blog community.
Someone referred to Plato, which reminded me of a humorous sentence in a student paper: "As far as I'm concerned, plutonic love is just a friendship." We wondered which definition he meant: having to do with the planet Pluto, having to do with plutonium or having to do with dogs with floppy ears.
Just a little humor to end the week with.
Writing Politely: The Difficulties of Conveying Tone in Writing through Cultural Differences
The other day in our Writing Center staff meeting, we discussed methods of being polite in face-to-face and online sessions. Many of the...
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While I admit I was once intrigued by the prostitute-consultant analogy, not by what Scott Russell had to say about it but by some of the id...
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