Attention writers! You know that painstakingly complicated research project you’re working on? Or that long-forgotten report from your WRD class that’s gathering virtual dust in the depths…
Retired UCWbLing Editor
When you read a book, what’s one of the first things you notice? Is it the setting? Is it the use of concrete versus abstract details? Is…
I’m just going to throw it out there: many organizations that use social media have no real idea what they’re doing with it, or why they’re using…
Tutoring professional writing can be scary, but it’s hard to say why. Two things seem to happen when I see nervous tutors confronted with a cover letter,…
Robert and Kevin interviewed a few professors who have worked with the UCWbL’s Faculty Development initiative. Â We discuss the feedback that they offered and the ways in…
Like all tutors that I’ve talked to, I get my fair share of uninterested, unenthusiastic and uncommitted writers. They slump in, dragging their feet but somehow also…
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Fear? Fuhgeddaboudit!
Staring down a hallway, in your jammies[1], you have to pee. At age 10, this is the ultimate test of courage. The path to the bathroom is…
Many of us in the humanities are thrilled with the rise of interdisciplinary studies, but I’m willing to bet there are a few comp-rhet and literature folks…
Writing is dangerous business. Throughout history, ranks of frustrated and despondent novelists and poets have made the image of the down-and-out writer a pop culture fixture. The…
Last weekend, I spent some extra time in the Lincoln Park UCWbL making my big debut on the spotted office carpet; I did notice that it at least…