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Why We Shouldn’t Be Afraid of Poetry Tutorials

“I want to look at a poem I’ve been working on.”  My writer uttered these words at the beginning of a tutorial last week, and the phrase…

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Utilizing Examples In Your Tutorial

    A picture is worth a thousand words, as the old adage says. And what better application for this cliche than the tutorial session? Truly, using…

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Get Help with Digication ePortfolios: a brand-new resource!

Maybe you’re a student who recently had to create an ePortfolio for a class, or maybe you’re an instructor, and your colleagues just won’t stop raving about…

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Multilingualism Writing about Writing

National Poetry Month: Only Iron Men Rust in the Rain

Today’s poem in celebration of the end of this year’s National Poetry Month in April is a beautiful short poem called “Rain” by the Iranian poet Ali Abdolrezaei…

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The Beauty of being Lost in Translation

While I was hunting around online looking for poems to collect for National Poetry Month, I came across a fascinating article called “20 Awesomely Untranslatable Words from…

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Who You Are and What You Say: “Platform” and Writing

In any discussion of writing (particularly writing in order to be published), the conversation comes back to platform.  You may not have heard that term for it,…

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National Poetry Month: “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice”

This week’s installment for National Poetry Month is the ballad “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” by Goethe, a man best known for his contributions to literature as well as…

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Multilingualism Writing about Writing

A Taste of Culture in Chicago’s Chinatown

Have you visited Chinatown yet?  You should! Chinatown is one of those neighborhoods that allows you to feel transported; you can pretend you are in a different…

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WRITE CLUB will infuse your life with meaning

I can see you now: despondent, lonely, doubtless trundling unlikely amounts of ice cream into your trembling food hole. You reach weakly for your notebook/laptop/what have you…

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When to Judge: on Evaluation in Tutorials

I try not to be too evaluative in my tutorials (or even my Written Feedback).  Of course, there’s always a time to reassure the writer that they’re…