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New Media Research Writing about Writing

On Open Access Scholarship

“Open Science, Open Minds.” That’s the slogan of Intech, an online resource with a wealth of science journals (and books) available for download, for free! I remember stumbling…

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Multilingualism Outreach and Events

CMWR Launches Winter Quarter Book Club

Students from all over the world are on the edge of their seats reading…The Hunger Games! On Friday, January 20, the Collaborative for Multilingual Writing and Research…

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Outreach and Events

Beyond DePaul: Networking after Graduation

How many times have you heard the phrase, “It’s a tough time to be a college graduate” in the past few years? Or how about: The economy…

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Writing about Writing

Submit Your Work to Threshold – Submissions Deadline Now Extended!

Hi all!  Threshold, DePaul’s premier student-run literary journal, is still accepting submissions for its Spring 2012 issue.  Submit your fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, or dramatic literature to…

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Peer Writing Tutoring Writing about Writing

Taking Another Look At Editing as Tutoring

When I first signed up for my literary editing course, I didn’t really think it would have much in common with my tutoring job.  I mean, we’re…

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Peer Writing Tutoring

Outpost and Short Tutorials: Challenges, Strategies, and Pitfalls

While it’s nice to finish a conference in under thirty minutes and return to meebo until the next student arrives at the outpost, short tutorials take a…

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Writing about Writing

“Very Short Stories”: Composing and Prose on Twitter

Comedian Sean Hill is bringing new meaning to the term “short story.”  His tiny tales (all of them under the 140-character limit imposed by Twitter) are strangely…

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Outreach and Events Writing about Writing

Conferences and the Writing Process

Recently, I finally pushed past my fear of making purchases greater than a month’s rent and registered for this year’s Association of American Geographers (AAG) conference in…

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Peer Writing Tutoring

Calling all Writers and Readers – Join the Guild!

If you’re a creative writer or reader of prose, poetry, screen or stage plays, come check out the DePaul Writer’s Guild led by UCWbL tutor and creative…

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Scrawl Radio

Ice Cube Has a Good Day (Scrawl S3 E3)

Ice Cube? Good Day? What day, you may ask.  Well click that there fancy link at the bottom and hear for yourself.  As you may have guessed,…