After two years at the Writing Center and four years at DePaul, I am graduating with my degree. It’s a bittersweet ending to my first-actual-for-realsies job. In…
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How to Journal Regularly
Journaling is a practice that dates back to at least the 10th century in Japan. Writing in a journal gives an outlet for your feelings, ideas…
Last year, a controversy of the greatest importance came out of social media: what are the colors of this dress? People debated whether it was blue and…
Back in fifth grade, everyone in our class was required to write an essay about what we liked about living in the United States. Our teacher told…
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Where We Write Matters
As I enter the Metra train to commute back home, I look for a train-car that is not noisy or smells like a fast food order. Once…
This fall quarter, I am in my Senior year Capstone course for the Geography department (GEO 300). For the nerdy academic types out there, the Capstone can…
When I was a child, there were two activities near and dear to my heart: playing video games and reading books. Books allowed me to engage and…
Albert Einstein said, “The important thing is not to stop questioning.” Although tutors answer questions that a writer may ask about their writing, we should consider the questions we ask writers.
According to the linguists Steven Weisler and Slavoljub P. Milekic, in their book Theory of Language, they estimate that “an average-educated English-speaking adult knows more than 50,000 words.” Most…
On an uneven and small sidewalk, my classmates laughed at each other’s silly inside jokes. We walk away from a restaurant only a few hundred feet past…