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Tutoring with Visual Rhetoric

Last Friday my fellow Faculty Development and Research team members and I explored our artsy-fartsy sides with an inservice titled “Tutoring with Visual Rhetoric” in preparation for…

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New Media Peer Writing Tutoring Writing about Writing

Support Something Cool: Graphic Textbooks

Ever wish you could have learned from something more engaging than dry old textbooks in elementary school?  Love comics and new media teaching?  Reading with Pictures, a…

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Multilingualism Writing about Writing

Put a Poem in Your Pocket

The Collaborative for Multilingual Writing and Research’s second installment in celebration of National Poetry Month comes from the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda. This coming Thursday, April 26th…

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Multilingualism Peer Writing Tutoring Writing about Writing

This Quarter at the CMWR

Read a mystery, explore culture, and meet people from all over the world! The Collaborative for Multilingual Writing and Research does all this every Friday.  On April…

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Peer Writing Tutoring Writing about Writing

Internships: Taking the Next Step

Two weeks ago I started a new internship with a literary agency.  Writing and editing are my passions, and after working at the Writing Center for the…

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New Media Outreach and Events Writing about Writing

Narratives for the Earth

Tuesday marks the second day of Earth Week 2012, which leads up to Earth day on the 22nd, and the world is abuzz with talk about the…

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New Media Writing about Writing

Farewell, Writing–Hello, Content!

In the writing world, and especially in the digital media community, we’re all guilty of obsessing over content.  We fret over whether our content is good and…

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Multilingualism Outreach and Events Writing about Writing

CMWR Celebrates Poetry Across Borders and Boundaries

We text, we tweet, and we Facebook, but do we lyricize? Plato argued that “Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history,” and Robert Fitzgerald contended that…

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Writing about Writing

ICW Tips for Tutors: Establishing Rapport

No matter how comfortable you are talking to people you’ve never met, sometimes standing up in the classroom in front of completely foreign faces can be daunting.…

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Peer Writing Tutoring

Towards a Linguistic “Glocalization”: A Geographic Approach to Writing Center Theory.

In 1997, geographer Erik Swyngedouw challenged the way that scholars viewed globalization with the publication of “Neither Global nor Local: ‘Glocalization’ and the Politics of Scale.” The…