I’ll be honest – I used to be a hardcore Twitter snob. I used to be avowedly anti-Twitter, turning my nose to those who used the social networking site. I thought that it seemed narcissistic to blast your opinions into … Continue reading
We here at the Collaborative for Multilingual Writing and Research are excited to publish the first ever episode of our new podcast, Multilingual Mics! We’ll be talking about language, culture, the awesome things that the CMWR does and the awesome … Continue reading
“A mad scientist approaches you with an offer—he will heighten one of your senses, but it will make one of your other senses duller. It isn’t optional; he’s going to perform the surgery anyway, but you get to choose which … Continue reading
Hello Scrawl Nation! This week we had a ball talking about the educational benefits of video games. UCWbL Head Tutor Sam Toninato visited the studio to discuss his own research, in which he found that many people feel that video … Continue reading
In creative writing there is this invisible line that so many of us are afraid to cross: how much reality should we use in our fiction without telling the oftentimes unfortunate inspiration? Is changing the name enough to keep someone … Continue reading
If you’re graduating this spring, you’re probably feeling a little more optimistic about the US job market than you might have a couple of years ago. Still, whatever sort of edge you can give yourself is welcome. So let’s start … Continue reading
For those of you who don’t know, we’ve been mixing it up this quarter in the CMWR’s Book Club. Rather than read a single book throughout the quarter with our group of multilingual participants, we’ve been reading a different piece of flash fiction each … Continue reading
I realize I’m really late to the party on this one, but just as Sam discussed last week, it’s healthy to knock your idols down a few pegs, if only for preserving your own sanity as a writer: thus, I … Continue reading
Recently on WNYC’s On the Media, hosts Brooke Gladstone and Bob Garfield posed an interesting question: “In this Golden Age of content, who’s going to pay for all this stuff?” We’ll come back to that question in a moment, but … Continue reading
Last night, in my “Text and Image” class, the topic of ethics came up. And although it may not have exactly been the direction my professor wished to go in, this prompted a huge debate of whether or not material … Continue reading