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Writing about Writing

Beautiful Lines

I’d rather not think about what this says about the world, but nearly a month later the universe is still abuzz with talk of Miley Cyrus and…

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Scrawl Radio

Wrecking Bad (Scrawl S8 E1)

Hello Scrawl Nation! Today, we ushered in a new season and welcomed a new host, Brandon Haskey, who joined veteran Scrawlers Robert Wilson and Kevin Kauffman. Our…

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Peer Writing Tutoring Writing about Writing

One Step At A Time

Good morning, UCWbLers and other writing-loving friends! Now that the autumn quarter is in full swing, we asked one of our new UCWbL writing tutors and graduate…

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Peer Writing Tutoring

The Royal We: How Pronouns Affect Collaboration

Sometimes when I’m writing my tutor logs, I need to remind myself that we didn’t read the paper aloud, the writer counting off “1 – 2 –…

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Writing about Writing

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…

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Peer Writing Tutoring

Respect Our Authoritah: Tutor Authority

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…

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New Media

3 blogs that win at the content game

I write about content development a lot on this blog, not only because I do a lot of it myself as a freelancer, but also because it’s…

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Peer Writing Tutoring Research

It Ain’t ‘Bout You: Putting the Writer First

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…

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Scrawl Radio

Time Of Our Lives (Scrawl S7 E9)

Hello Scrawl Nation! This week Scrawl invited fellow UCWbLer Mo Clancy and Nathalia Oliveira to talk about their experience as a Head Writing Fellows. Mo, Nathalia, and…

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Writing about Writing

Multilingual Mics Episode 2: Feeling Creative? Writing in Other Languages

Hey everybody! Multilingual Mics is back with our second (and final) episode of the school year! This week in “Feeling Creative? Writing in Other Languages,” we sat…