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Professional Development

What’s Up with The Workshops Team?

The UCWbL is for everyone, and in embodying the value of “collaboration” that is at the heart of our mission, the Workshops team is central to creating…

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Multilingualism Writing about Writing

Citing Your Sources: Your Text, Other Voices

How are citations like grammar? No one expects writers to memorize all the conventions—only to be consistent throughout their projects. On Monday, September 28, and Tuesday, September 29, the Collaborative for Multilingual Writing…

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Peer Writing Tutoring Writing about Writing

Workshops and Transferable Skills

If you’ve ever had an in-class workshop, you may have thought “Great! Time to sit back and relax while we go through another useless presentation and then class…

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Scrawl Radio

How To Avoid An E-Fail (Scrawl S10 E4)

Hello Scrawl Nation! Last week’s episode of Scrawl Radio was all about email etiquette!

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Multilingualism

Help! How do I give a presentation? Five takeaways from the CMWR’s workshop

Last week, we at the Collaborative for Multilingual Writing and Research hosted a workshop on classroom strategies for learners of English as an additional language.  We realized…

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Multilingualism Outreach and Events Writing about Writing

Lessons From Lady Gaga

Looking for a fun, catchy way to learn language?  Listen to music!  On Monday, October 22nd, the CMWR hosted our quarterly workshop on precisely this idea.  Participants…

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Outreach and Events

Writing Groups present AP and ILP Forums for SNL Writers

Most UCWbLers may know or remember that Writing Groups Leaders do a lot of work with adult students from the School for New Learning.  As part of…

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New Media Writing about Writing

Writing.com

I know I frequently offer websites to you all that I think will be useful to writers. But today I found one that I myself am going…

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Outreach and Events

Flask Fiction

Are you a writer? Are you twenty-one or older? Do you like to drink? Got some free time between 5 and 8 pm tonight?

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Writing about Writing

Workshopping Outside of School

Can you count on one hand the number of people outside of school who have read your work? This is a shame.  You may be thinking, “talk…