At one point or another, you will open WC Online and find that a writer wants your advice on making an essay more “personal.” Maybe a writer…
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How Can We Tutor Poetry?
When I talk to other tutors about helping writers with poetry, I’m usually met with one of two, opposing reactions: total excitement and curiosity, or extreme intimidation.…
As a student studying to be a high school English teacher, I was searching for an opportunity at DePaul that would help me grow into the educator…
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Zines 101
What is a zine? A zine is a genre that originally worked as a counter-culture method of information sharing. The format started as fan groups of media…
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Scrawl S19 E2: Plagarism
Hello from Scrawl! This morning we had a great time chatting about plagiarism, when and how we deal with it at the writing center, and some examples…
As a rapid consumer and fan of all things design, I like to consider how the things we look at are determined visually; for example, I…
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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…
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Halloween Special (Scrawl S13 E06)
Hello Scrawl Nation! This episode of Scrawl is a special Halloween installment with Ryan McQueeny as lead host! His guest for this Halloween special is Head Writing…
Hello Scrawl Nation! On last week’s episode of Scrawl, we focused on the Peer Tutor and Mentor Summit. James Neisen of the DePaul Writing Center’s Outreach team appeared…
For this week’s episode, as part of our two-week publishing series, we had Professor Chris Green of Big Shoulders books to discuss the world of publishing, editing…