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Scrawl Radio

SCRAWL S11E11 How to be an activist in 140 characters #slacktivism

Good morning Scrawl Nation! What’s trending nowadays? #Facebookdown? #BellLetsTalk? #collegefession?

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Scrawl Radio

You Can “Handle” This: Blogging and Twitter 101 (Scrawl S10 E07)

Hello Scrawl Nation! For this week’s episode of Scrawl Radio we brought on a very special guest from the UCWbL’s social media team, Allana T, to talk…

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New Media

5 benefits that Twitter offers academics

Over the past few years, the debate over whether social media helps or hurts our culture has changed.  Most people aren’t so worried about connectivity anymore; now,…

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Writing about Writing

Roger Ebert’s best tweets about DePaul

On April 4 Chicago lost Roger Ebert, a writer and critic of boundless energy.  When I was growing up, his movie reviews were one of my Friday…

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New Media

Social-ize Your Writing Center (with hints from our social media guide)

We’re always encouraging our colleagues to share the awesome work they do through our social media outlets.  If you’re an UCWbLer looking for the best channel to…

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Scrawl Radio

A Terrifying Tweet? (Scrawl S3 E9)

Hello, and yes you read that correctly.  Can Twitter be terrifying?  Who would do such a thing? On this episode of Scrawl, the gang gets the goosebumps…

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New Media Writing about Writing

MLA adds format for citing tweets

Great news for social media-savvy UCWbLers – the Modern Language Association has rolled out the correct format for citing a tweet in an academic paper.  If you…

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Writing about Writing

“Very Short Stories”: Composing and Prose on Twitter

Comedian Sean Hill is bringing new meaning to the term “short story.”  His tiny tales (all of them under the 140-character limit imposed by Twitter) are strangely…