Have you read the latest issue of The Page, the Collaborative for Multilingual Writing and Research’s e-newsletter? In this nicely designed PDF, you’ll learn more about what…
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Month: November 2011
What’s this, another post about procrastination during finals season? A total surprise, I know. But, dear UCWbLers, I have something to confess: I had a really hard…
Did you spill coffee on the pages of Wuthering Heights? Did the campus book store clerk reject your pristine copy of Intro. to Biology, claiming that a new and…
Does anyone use 750words.com? I came across an article in the Writing Lab Newsletter this week that explains and discusses the “web-based application.” Jackie Grutsch McKinney from…
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Make A Wish (Scrawl S2 E9)
From this past Friday, 11.11.11, the Scrawl team discussed the news of the momentous day. For this word of the day, there is a twist! Not only…
One tutoring technique I find useful, whether the appointment is written or face-to-face, is asking a question as a way of overcoming an obstacle. It is not…
With the closing of Borders, it’s starting to seem like there are more used bookstores in Chicago than first-hand bookstores. Certainly used bookstores ARE “green” — keeping…
I’ve never read Moby-Dick. Yes. I’m an English major, and I haven’t read it. It wasn’t assigned in high school, and the quarter system here at DePaul…
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Preventing Tutor Fatigue
We’ve all had it happen. You’ve had four face-to-face appointments so far today, your eyes hurt from staring at your computer screen, and in walks your next…
Beyond the typographical errors (or stylistic choices? Hey, he’s following his own tip number 13.) of Jack Kerouac’s “Belief and Technique for Modern Prose” lie gems of…