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Tutoring and adrienne maree brown’s Emergent Strategy

I was introduced to adrienne maree brown’s book Emergent Strategy in one of my dramaturgy classes, though the book never says anything about theatre. The book– which…

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Maintaining a Writer’s Identity: Linguistic Justice in the Writing Center

There’s always work to be done in the UCWbL in regards to linguistic justice. Gatekeeping remains overt and pervasive within academic and rhetorical spaces even as we…

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Theatre Performance and Peer Tutoring

If you think that all of the skills we’ve learned while tutoring at the Writing Center will be useless after we graduate, think again. In my early…

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Hands-On Tutoring

One of our mottos at the UCWbL is to meet writers where they are. This can mean where writers are in the writing process, the writing experience…

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Writing about Writing

Introducing the New Editor

Hello, writers! My name is Grace T and I am the new UCWbLing blog editor. I’m a first-year graduate student in the Creative Writing and Publishing program.…

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For the Writers and the Perfectionists: 3 Pieces of Advice from a Graduating UCWbLer

First and foremost, welcome to the DePaul Writing Center, aka the UCWbL.  If you’re reading this and we haven’t met, my name is Paul D. and I’ll…

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The Beneficial Relationship between Meditation and Writing

Usually, when meditation is brought up in conversation as a possible solution to one’s problem, it is often met with the response of, “Oh no, I can’t…

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But Screenplay Writing Is Scary and I Don’t Know How to Do It

Upon my admission to DePaul and subsequent decision to pursue screenwriting, I entered the fall of my freshman year with a very nervous kind of excitement.  I…

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An Audience of One

Sometimes I cannot bring myself to write. Sometimes I cannot bring myself to write at all. I sit at the chair with an empty mind and shake…

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Prioritizing the Global

As I consider my development as a tutor and writer over my three years working as at the UCWbL, I can see how much I have come…