Football season may be over, but it’s worth talking about something that made this season a little unusual: it seems more and more athletes are speaking their…
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Title Troubles
Titles can make or break a paper, which is funny because the last thing many of us do when writing a paper is come up with a…
Last week, we at the Collaborative for Multilingual Writing and Research hosted a workshop on classroom strategies for learners of English as an additional language. We realized…
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Against Flash Drives
A friend of mine who is a prolific writer had his apartment broken into not very long ago. Being a writer, he obviously didn’t have many valuables–except…
Party people: it’s that time again. This week marks International Writing Centers Week, a time for celebrating the writer within. The University Center for Writing-based Learning here…
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IWCW Special (Scrawl S6 E4)
Hey everybody, it’s International Writing Center Week! In honor of this, Scrawl wanted to talk about the IWCW events going on at DePaul. Our fellow UCWbLers Mark Brand…
First, I want you to take a look at this: As you can see, for most of us in the US, it doesn’t seem like there’s…
In his essay “Once Upon a Time, There Was a Person Who Said ‘Once Upon a Time,’” Steve Almond uses a trend among his creative writing students…
Recently I had to complete an assignment I had no interest in. As it happens, it was not so much the subject matter which bothered me, but…
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Prompting Confidence
The prompt based paper. All college students, and most high school students, have faced this kind of paper, essay, word-based thing, save for those who have somehow…