On Wednesday, May 8, the DePaul Humanities Center hosts Stanley Fish, who daylights as an influential American literary theorist and moonlights as a New York Times columnist. Titled…
Retired UCWbLing Editor
On this week’s show, we explored the destructive side of constructive criticism by pulling up a couple entertaining clips of feedback that does more to insult than…
On Friday, April 26 the University of Illinois-Chicago is hosting Composition Matters, a symposium with a lineup of composition scholars so great it rivals the ’95-’96 Bulls…
Call me academically “tapped in”, but ever since starting both “Design Rhetorics” (New Media Studies 508) and “Text and Image” (New Media Studies 504) last week, I…
GOOD Magazine and the Apollo Group teamed up to produce an infographic based on research into what employers think about the current crop of college graduates entering…
The Department of Writing, Rhetoric, & Discourse’s spring conference is coming up very soon on Saturday, May 11. You can RSVP here, and if you haven’t responded…
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Content and Its Discontents
Doesn’t it seem a little strange that About.com has an entire subdomain dedicated to doing your laundry, including their own designated laundry correspondent? This kind of thing is…
Coming back for my last quarter at DePaul, I find myself extremely unmotivated. As a result I can no longer deny that I suffer from the disease…
On April 4 Chicago lost Roger Ebert, a writer and critic of boundless energy. When I was growing up, his movie reviews were one of my Friday…
Faculty: are you interested in participating in WRITE, DePaul’s new faculty Writing Group? Since this will be a high-tech, inter-campus, inter-disciplinary effort, here are some specifics and…