How to Format Professional Email Etiquette 21 Jun 2018 We all have to do it… the professional email. Whether you’re in college, applying for a job, emailing your new work team or boss, email has become an innovation that…
How to Format… Humor in Academic Writing 23 Jan 201823 Jan 2018 A priest, a rabbi, and a blue whale walk into a bar. But more on that later. For now, let’s all just express a truth so deep it need not…
How to Format… Blind Date With a Book 16 Jan 201816 Jan 2018 Happy Spring 2018 semester! We here at the MSU Denver Writing Center hope everyone had an amazing or at least relaxing break. This Spring we will be introducing something new…
How to Format… What to Use Instead of “Very” or “Really” 7 Dec 20177 Dec 2017 It’s that time in the semester again. The one we’ve dreaded for sixteen weeks- finals. The work-load amount has surged upward and you’re looking at a blank screen hoping your…
How to Format Writing Rituals 24 Oct 2017 I must be a masochist because I’ve developed a set of rituals associated with writing that seem pretty painful, if not superfluous and unnecessarily exhausting. I think there’s probably an element…
How to Format A Nation Without Vision: A Return to Principle 27 Sep 2017 WRITING EXERCISE OF THE DAY: “I stand for _________” Dear Students, There is crazy stuff happening in the world right now; I am appalled by the president’s comments this week…
How to Format… Chicago Manual of Style realizes it’s the 21st Century, notices the internet is a thing, gets woke. 1 Aug 2017 The 17th edition of the Chicago Manual of Style is coming out this fall, and there are some monumental changes in store for history majors as well as anyone who…
How to Format… Once Upon A Time 1 Aug 20171 Aug 2017 Have you ever thought about the oddness of the words “once upon a time?” Shakespeare’s “The Tempest,” for those who haven’t read it, is about this man named Prospero whose…
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