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Monthly Archives: July 2011

Scrawl Radio, 7/29

July 29, 2011

Do you like listening to Scrawl? Check out the latest episode here! This week’s episode featured readings by Flask Fiction winners Stella Martin and SCRAWL’s own Devin Leigh, an introduction to our newest segment, and more Ace of Base (because … Continue reading →

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This Is Your Brain Online

July 27, 2011

“When people expect to have future access to information, they have lower rates of recall of the information itself and enhanced recall instead for where to access it.”  So says a panel of psychologists headed by Dr. Betsy Sparrow in … Continue reading →

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SCRAWL Radio, 7/22

July 22, 2011

Here for your listening enjoyment is the most recent episode of SCRAWL, the UCWbL’s weekly radio show!

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SCRAWL Radio, 7/15

July 20, 2011

Beat the heat with an extra-special and extra-long helping of SCRAWL!  Give it a listen below.  Just hit “play.”

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Flask Fiction: Round 2!

July 16, 2011

Are you a writer? Are you twenty-one or older? Do you like to drink? Got some free time between 5 and 7 pm tonight? (Come on, it’s Thursday. You know you do). Come to Round 2 of Flask Fiction at … Continue reading →

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Creative Prompts for Writing

July 13, 2011

When you’re running short of ideas for your writing, there are a few methods via which you can try to get over the proverbial block that sits between you and your goal of writing. You can ask your friends, you … Continue reading →

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Writing.com

July 13, 2011

I know I frequently offer websites to you all that I think will be useful to writers. But today I found one that I myself am going to use, because it does something for the serious writer that I used … Continue reading →

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Writing Centers and Collaborative Learning: Only Evolutionary?

July 12, 2011

In a recent post on The Stone, the New York Times’ blog for contemporary philosophical issues, Notre Dame professor Gary Cutting takes a look at a recent intellectual dust-up over the nature of human reason—a debate which I think falls … Continue reading →

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New Scrawl Radio Show, 7/8

July 8, 2011

Today’s Scrawl Radio show focused on performance and craft. Performances by host Devin of his award-winning video “the American Dream,” and by first-and-second-place winners of last week’s Flask Fiction. What made this a good listen is that the types and … Continue reading →

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Mirror, mirror on the wall which is the English-est English of them all?

July 8, 2011

In preparation for a workshop this fall, the Collaborative for Multilingual Writing and Research (CMWR) has been doing a lot of research on American accents and dialects. Since English Language Learners (ELLs) are usually only really exposed to a standard … Continue reading →

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