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Writing about Writing

Small Steps: How to Stay Motivated until the End

You were assigned a paper in one of your classes. It was nothing new to you; the length assigned by your instructor was about ten pages. You…

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Writing about Writing

New Beginnings, the Blues, and Coffee: Surviving Winter Quarter

Winter Quarter at DePaul began with a record-shattering bitter cold, and heading to class after a cancellation on Monday, I felt as though I have faced the…

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Peer Writing Tutoring

You’ve Gotta Put Your Behind in Your Past: Disney and the Hard-but great-Knock UCWbLing Life

Working at the UCWbL has driven me to find inspiration literally everywhere.  From music, to popular culture media, to movies and television shows, I have begun to…

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Peer Writing Tutoring

Working With the Uncommitted Writer: A Guide to Inspiring Enthusiasm

Like all tutors that I’ve talked to, I get my fair share of uninterested, unenthusiastic and uncommitted writers. They slump in, dragging their feet but somehow also…