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Clue Fourteen

Clue Fourteen is clues for college writers in under 14 minutes.  Host Steve Dalager interviews professional writers and writing instructors, and distills their insights into brief lively and entertaining episodes that always leave listeners with practical takeaways.

May 2, 2023

At Lake Superior College, there are students from all over the world Many of them have a Primary Language that is not English, yet here, they must speak, listen, read, and write in English.  That they are successful, and they are, is absolutely amazing.  Kirsi Halonen, LSC English Instructor, was once one such stud


Apr 27, 2023

All of this talk about writing. I think it’s time to acknowledge reading. It’s not rocket science that there’s a connection between the two. LSC Reading faculty Keri Stimpson talks with us here about: 

  1. The literal relationship between these two critical acts. 

  1. How college reading – reading for...


Apr 26, 2023

All of this stuff you’ve been learning in Comp class? You know, thesis statements, Intros, bodies, conclusions, transitions, citations? All good stuff, right? Well, LSC’s Lindsy Mason O’Brien says sure. Fine. But wait?   She maintains that: 

  1. There are other ways of academic writing that are totally different


Apr 20, 2023

As we know from an earlier episode with Amy Jo Swing, this English language comes from...England. OK. Pretty obvious, but in this episode, British expatriate Nicola Scott from LSC’s Tutoring and Learning Center unpacks for us what she learned about writing back in her school days. It’s kind of surprising: 


Apr 18, 2023

Let me guess. You’ve been waiting and waiting for an episode on Thesis Statements. You are in luck, because Paul Richgruber and Jocelyn Pihlaja met me at Mexico Lindo one night to talk about just that. Paul, a writer and history faculty, was really there to get some insight into how to help his students arrive at...