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Outreach and Events

Help Us Make Threshold Awesome

DePaul’s Literary Magazine, Threshold, is now accepting submissions from any and all writers!

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Writing about Writing

5 Library Resources for the Pros

Just a hunch, but I’m willing to bet not many people made a New Year’s resolution to unearth the best resources the library has to offer–and which…

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Thanks, Tell Your Friends (Scrawl S5 E8)

On Scrawl’s concluding episode of Season 5, Mark Brand shares his Writing Center Theory and Pedagogy project with us.  He explains a very useful method of marketing…

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Closed for Winterizing

Beginning today, our UCWbLers are taking a well-deserved rest.  We’ll be back for Winter Quarter 2013 with more coverage of the peer writing tutor community.  Until then,…

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Peer Writing Tutoring

How to Work with Passive Aggressive Writers

It goes something like this. Let’s call this writer “Bartleby,” or Bart for short.  Bart arrives at the writing center for his two-hour appointment, and you greet…

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Scrawl Radio

NCPTW Unwind (Scrawl S5 E7)

On this episode of Scrawl, Mark Lazio and Sam Toninato join us to discuss their presentation at the National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing.  They also…

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Peer Writing Tutoring

Tutor Skills and Conflict Resolution

As tutors, we undergo a lot of training to be able to understand where our writers are coming from and how to best help them revise or…

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Writing about Writing

Software for the Frustrated Writer

Like many writers, I have difficulty writing on my laptop because it’s way too easy to get distracted. If you’re not chatting with friends, you’re opening Twitter…

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Outreach and Events Writing about Writing

DePaul Writers read at Aloud! (video)

The Student Center gave the Writers Guild a warm welcome Thursday evening for Aloud! a public reading of fiction, poetry, and essays on the occasion of the…

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Writing about Writing

How to Not Procrastinate

Shameless publicity stunt, or ingenious productivity boost?  Maneesh Sethi, who blogs for Hack the System, made news by hiring somebody to slap him every time he got off…