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Tutoring and Stage Directing

Preface I do not tend to direct particularly literary work. I think people often conflate Writing Center practices with editing plays. While I am a dramaturg and write dramaturgical analyses (and I love a…

Eco-Writing with Grace V.

Grace V. is a Writing, Rhetoric, and Discourse MA student at DePaul University. She is a passionate environmentalist and advocate for eco-friendly practices. I talked with her about eco-writing, why it’s so important, and…

Flash Fiction & Memoir with Nic J.

I talked with Writing Center tutor Nic J. about their favorite genre of writing: Flash Fiction and Flash Non-fiction! Nic is a graduate student in DePaul University’s Creative Writing and Publishing program. They have…

Feedback Phobia

Navigating the Fear of Critique in Creative Writing: This quarter I gave myself a challenge: write and complete a short story. Growing up, I would always start many drafts of a story, only to…

Writing Concisely

According to Grammarly, “Syntax in English is the arrangement of words and phrases in a specific order. If you change the position of even one word, it’s possible to change the meaning of the…

The Singing Center

Applying Writing Center Core Beliefs to Singing I love to sing. In fact, I love to sing almost as much as Buddy the Elf does; however, not everybody shares the same feeling about singing…