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Nov 19th, 2013
UWindsor professors Alan Metcalfe and Brian Rintoul will receive Excellence in Mentoring Awards from the alumni association on Thursday, November 21.
Although the students who use their services come from all different academic disciplines, varying countries and cultures, and range from first-year undergraduates to doctoral candidates, they generally share one challenge, say the volunteers of the Writing Advisor program: grammar.
“Sometimes the first draft of their papers won’t contain any articles at all,” says Kai Hildebrandt, one of the professors emeriti who have been helping students with their essays. “In fairness, some of their native languages don’t have articles like English does.”