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Outreach and Events

Submit your work to EGSA 2013 by Monday, April 8!

The conferences just keep coming.  DePaul’s very own English Graduate Student Assocation’s spring conference is on the horizon, and luckily, they’ve pushed back the deadline for submissions…

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Writing about Writing

Should you be afraid of the Mechanical Turk?

Imagine that your workday goes something like this: you get out of bed, queue up your computer or handheld device, and set to work on your Human…

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Outreach and Events

MWCA 2013 proposals are due today!

The Midwest Writing Center Association will meet October 17 through 19 in Chicago, and proposals for the annual conference are due today! Review the guidelines and submit…

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Outreach and Events

We’ll be back!

UCWbLing is hard work, and so as DePaul goes on Spring Break, many of our writers are taking a break, cutting loose and migrating to sunnier weather.…

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New Media

Time to get used to digital media

You might have heard about the media giant Time Warner’s recent break-up with TIME Inc., publisher of the scarlet-lettered staple of grocery store aisles across America.  It’s…

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Outreach and Events

Join us this Monday for late-nite tutoring

There’s nothing quite like the Richardson Library during Finals Week.  When the sun sinks low and the library’s 24-hour schedule begins, the slender stacks of books, the…

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Writing about Writing

Michael Jackson & the power of body language

Michael Jackson told us to dance, and I’m here to remind us. This week in the CMWR’s Conversation and Culture we talked a lot about body language.…

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Writing about Writing

NCPTW gets a new look

The website of the preposition-rich National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing has had a facelift.  The new site features some slick branding work from the UCWbL’s…

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Scrawl Radio

Genre Jam with Mark and Sam (Scrawl S6 E8)

This week, we looked at the UCWbL’s sixth core belief that understanding the different contexts and genres of writing can help writers. Sam Toninato and Mark Jacobs…

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Writing about Writing

Google Glass: Social Awkwardness Advanced

A few minutes ago, a fellow writing tutor and I were discussing the recent phenomenon of Google Glass. For anyone who may not be familiar with this…