A Conversation “You changed your major!?” “Yeah..its not a huge deal or anything.” “Can you keep your job at the Writing Center?” I dunno…can I? A Memory…
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The new season of House of Cards was released on Valentine’s Day, marking the return of the duplicitous Frank Underwood on his quest for power. In the…
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Idioms, You So Crazy
Idioms are fun. They can also tickle your funny bone when understood literally as demonstrated by JustKiddingFilms. Their short films, If Idioms Were Real and If Idioms…
A writer sat down for his session and told me that he’d been working in finance for years, and he was only enrolled in the School for…
A frantic writer sat in front of me with an assignment due two hours following his appointment. This writer, an ESL student, wanted to fix the grammar…
When you read the private journals and miscellany of famous authors and artists, you feel embarrassed, humbled, and surprised all at once. It can come as a shock that the…
If you’re like me, then working in a writing center is the first time you have worked in a place where you might have to face a…
As tutors we come into contact with dozens of essays, projects and presentations every week, through our writers. As we comment on and nudge along in our…
“I want to look at a poem I’ve been working on.” My writer uttered these words at the beginning of a tutorial last week, and the phrase…
In any discussion of writing (particularly writing in order to be published), the conversation comes back to platform. You may not have heard that term for it,…