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…
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Don’t Write Off Pre-Literate Cultures
Recently in my political science class, we had a discussion about George Stewart’s science fiction classic, Earth Abides. In the book, an unknown disease wipes out nearly…
Directive tutoring has been on my mind for a couple of weeks now, ever since re-working my UCWbL portfolio to be specific, so I figured it was…
I recently discovered this lovely blog consisting of pictures of authors scribbling advice for aspiring writers on their hands. The authors are mainly fantasy authors, but…
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Tutoring via Webcam
Here at the UCWbL, we like to keep up with the times. Therefore, without further ado, let me introduce our latest appointment option: tutoring via webcam! As…
Hello True Believers! This week’s episode focused on the DePaul Spring English Conference. Tracey read a selection from a personal narrative that she wrote and prepared for the…
If you’re planning on coming by Chicagoland this October for the Midwest Writing Center Association’s 2013 national conference, we’re happy to announce that hotel registration is open.…
Imagine, if you will, a tutoring appointment. You are reading a writer’s paper and all you can manage to think is “No.” We have all, at least…
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Om, not um
What’s so wrong with being quiet? Susan Cain’s TED Talk The Power of Introverts sparked this question last week in the Loop Writing Center. In America, we…
Wikipedia tells me that the Pacific Gray whale swims between 10,000 and 14,000 miles a year, but in Samuel D. Hunter’s play The Whale we never go so far…