WRITING TIPS FROM JCU FACULTY

In the Spring semester of 2004, the Composition Program invited faculty at John Carroll University to respond to these four questions:

(1) What advice would you most like to give students writers in your classes?
(2) What writing features specific to your discipline that you value do you want your students to be aware of?
(3) What are your particular pet peeves about writing style? What mistakes in writing drive you crazy?
(4) What's the most useful advice you ever received about your own writing?

Their answers appear below, arranged by department, then by professor. We hope that this advice will be useful to JCU students as they write in these professors' classes, but we also hope that this array of excellent and detailed commentary on writing will help all writers in business as they draft, revise, edit and proofread their writing. Please email us your comments, responses, or additions to this list, which we hope will grow.

Classical and Modern Languages
Communication
English
Philosophy
Psychology
History