The First-Year Writing Showcase is back, and we’re kind of obsessed with it here at the UCWbL. The showcase accepts submissions from students across DePaul’s First Year…
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Last month, the DePaul Humanities Center invited George Saunders to read from his newest story collection, The Tenth of December, which is, according to The New York Times, already the…
You may have read about some UCWbLers’ experiences working for film production companies in Los Angeles last quarter. For this episode, we had the pleasure of sitting down…
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What’s in a Square?
In Conversation & Culture yesterday, one partaker pointed out that Chicago doesn’t really have anywhere to gather, at least not in a way he expected. New Year’s…
I’ve always wanted to participate in National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo); there’s something romantic and adventurous about a group of over-caffeinated writers typing furiously to beat their…
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The Danger of “Peerness”
It is no secret that here at the UCWbL, we pride ourselves on practicing the concept of “peerness”. From peer tutors to peer writing fellows, we always…
Before the UCWbL opened for appointments two weeks ago, tutors, fellows, and administrators gatheredfor the annual Winter quarter staff retreat. The program changes every year, but usually…
No matter how much you love to tutor, the extent to which you enjoy the company of other UCWbL employees, or whether or not you are the…
Here at the UCWbL we a pretty straight forward philosophy: everyone who writes is a writer, all writers can improve through revision, but these theories do not…
What are MOOCs? On Sunday, Thomas Friedman of The World Is Flat fame had this to say about this recent development in higher education: “Nothing has more…