As a creative writer, I have gotten more than once during a tutoring session, students asking how in the world I could possibly be qualified to tutor…
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Retired UCWbLing Editor
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The Group Thing (Scrawl S5 E3)
On this episode of Scrawl, we sit down with Edward and Mark of the Writing Groups Team. They share with us the value of your writing with…
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Talent = Tutor?
I live with a chemist and a teacher. From what I can tell the Chemist works as hard as anyone on campus; he is, however, not the…
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Connection > Content
Tutoring and working with writers never seems to be exactly what you’d expect. But I have found that it is not the content, but the connection made…
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Art Afoot
On Monday, October 2, several international students joined the CMWR on our Walk & Talk to Pilsen, Chicago’s famous Latino-American neighborhood. The English Language Academy treated us…
Social media. Its everywhere we look. You and all your friends are using it on your phones and computers. Businesses cannot seem to survive without it. Its…
“The best writing teachers are writers themselves,” argues Cindy O’Donnell-Allen in the Atlantic. Â As she looks at the widely studied curriculum overhaul at New Dorp High School…
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Tutoring as a Community
While tutoring in the writing center you overhear a lot of different conversations, as well as participate in many, that are very interesting. I have heard discussions…
This week, the Chicago Public Library Foundation awarded novelist Don DeLillo the Carl Sandburg Literary Award
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Reading, Writing, FUN!
Ever since I was little I have loved to read. Books were my television. I would imagine myself as one of the characters in the book, or…