BMCC Writing Center

08/02/2010

Great article on plagiarism in the digital age from the NY Times. Ah, cut & paste....

Many students simply do not grasp that using words they did not write is a serious academic misdeed.

07/26/2010

We're hard at work on our Online Writing Center. What would topics would you like to see us conquer?

07/12/2010

We're here in N777, a room tucked behind the north side elevator. Visit us!

07/08/2010

We are tutoring in S701 until tomorrow--and then we'll be in N777 for the rest of the summer!

06/15/2010

Love this site: "NBA Star to Help Murder Victim's Son" is just so awesomely awful on so many levels.

Submitted by Carys Redman-White who comments that it “conjures heartwarming images of BP playing nicely in the playground, and letting everyone have a go on the slide, despite the continuing crisis.”

06/14/2010

We are here, poised and perky, ready to help you with your writing needs. Also, we have chocolate.

06/11/2010

The NYT takes on big fancy-pants words like "atavistic" and "antidiluvian." We love big words.

Times readers are literate and well educated. But privately, away from the cocktail party, some of them may wonder: what exactly does "jejune" mean, anyway? If someone put a gun to my head, could I give a precise definition of "atavistic"?

06/09/2010

Interesting article on YouTube's education sensation Salman Khan's new model for teaching.

Salman Khan, a former financial analyst, has created 1,400 educational videos and posted them to YouTube. "My single biggest goal is to try to deliver things the way I wish they were delivered to me," he says.

06/09/2010

We're starting to assemble our OWL and want your input. What do you think we need to cover online?

06/08/2010

Awesome new NY Times word-a-day vocab blog. It starts with "petrichor," one of our fave words.

Schott's Vocab is honored and delighted to have joined forces with the inestimable Oxford English Dictionary to offer each weekday a word of interest. The inaugural Daily Lexeme is "petrichor" - A pleasant, distinctive smell frequently accompanying the first rain after a long period of warm, dry wea...

05/20/2010

We are here, ready to tutor, all the way through final exams and beyond.

05/12/2010

The New York Times tries to stamp out, like, chatty news and stuff.

Here's the latest of my increasingly desperate pleas to stem the flood of colloquialisms in news stories. Stodginess is not the goal. But we take the news seriously, and our news report should sound serious - not like teenage slang, TV happy-talk or Twitter chatter.