This is my last quarter as an undergraduate student at DePaul, a peer tutor, and a Collaborative for Multilingual Writing and Research (CMWR) team member. Throughout my…
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The UCWbL: Beyond Writing
The UCWbL offers writers opportunities to engage and improve their communication skills. Whether it is through the traditional Face-to-Face appointment or Screencast Feedback, which provides writers with…
Does syntax make your head spin? Do sentence diagrams fill you with dread? Are you awash in anguish over alliteration? Or do you happen to be someone…
Last week, I had a conversation with a fellow UCWbLer and the UCWbL director about working with multilingual writers. We discussed the different approaches to tutoring and…
The CMWR’s Fall Quarter Walk and Talk took place on October 21st in Chicago’s Greektown. Around 3:30 we gathered outside of the National Hellenic Museum off the…
Only in the Book Club does a discussion of Amy Tan’s “Two Kinds” – a story of a failed child prodigy who tears the fabric of her…
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…
Michael Jackson told us to dance, and I’m here to remind us. This week in the CMWR’s Conversation and Culture we talked a lot about body language.…
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Fear? Fuhgeddaboudit!
Staring down a hallway, in your jammies[1], you have to pee. At age 10, this is the ultimate test of courage. The path to the bathroom is…
As many of you may be aware, Chicago winters can be…well, difficult. Cold. Windy. Snowy. Windy and snowy at the same time, even. With this in mind,…