Throughout my stay at the UCWbL, I’ve overheard and participated in conversations about which pronoun(s) should be used to indicate singular gender neutrality. To be frank, I’ve…
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Retired UCWbLing Editor
Looking for a fun, catchy way to learn language? Listen to music! On Monday, October 22nd, the CMWR hosted our quarterly workshop on precisely this idea. Participants…
We all know it when we see it. A writer is reading aloud their paper, and something about a sex or gender or racial term just sounds…off.…
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Getting Better All the Time
You think you have it bad? I certainly thought so. Like many writers, I have a love-hate relationship with our trade. My composing process is riddled with…
Okay, so here in Chicago we’re pretty far away from Hurricane Sandy and the watery apocalypse prophesied for the East Coast – doesn’t mean we can’t get…
How clichéd can a writing workshop get, right? Picture it. Half a dozen writers of various skill levels around a dining room table shuffling drafts back and…
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NCPTW (Scrawl S5 E5)
On this episode of Scrawl Radio, we are joined by Colin Sato, a fellow UCWbLer and the Keynote Speaker for this year’s National Conference on Peer Tutoring…
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The Theoretical “Writer”
Tommy and Logan here to talk some theory with you. When we read and discuss writing center theory in class, we necessarily associate and apply any given…
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Alif… Baa… Taa…
Now that I’ve been studying Classical Arabic nearly every day for the past month, I thought it would be a good time to step back and reflect…
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Good Fellas (Scrawl S5 E4)
On this episode of Scrawl, we explore the ins and outs of the Writing Fellows Program. We interviewed some of the higher-ups of the program as they…