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Peer Writing Tutoring

Tips For a Successful ELL Tutorial

I’ve never had a conversation partner appointment, but I’d like to think that I’d know what to do with one.  The UCWbL abounds with strategies for a…

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New Media Peer Writing Tutoring

“The Deflector” | Episode 2 of The Breakroom

Charlotte, Dubs, and Zorno are back for the second episode of DePaul’s newest web series of writing center videos, The Breakroom. “The Deflector” addresses the need to establish…

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Writing about Writing

Looking to Get Published? Submit Your Work to Threshold!

Threshold is DePaul’s premier student-run literary journal, and they’re accepting submissions now for the Spring 2012 issue!  If you’re a poet, a writer, or just someone interested…

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Writing about Writing

Our Books, Ourselves

Question time: would you think less of someone for reading a certain book or kind of book?  Might you form an opinion about the person sitting across…

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Outreach and Events

UCWbL Event: The Role of Language in Student Organization Development

The Faculty Development and Research Team has been working hard for the past few months on our three part series “Writing for the Mission” which has been…

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Peer Writing Tutoring

The Importance of Building Rapport: Because Bradley could be your next appointment

If you haven’t seen it yet, check out the latest episode of The Breakroom on the UCWbL’s youtube page. This video depicts and discusses the importance of…

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Writing about Writing

Agenda Setting in Conversation Partner appointments

The UCWbL’s Conversation Partner appointments offer English language learners the unique opportunity to practice conversational English in the Writing Center. Since Conversation Partner appointments are so new…

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Scrawl Radio

Scrawl Is Back! (Scrawl S3 E1)

Here’s the situation: we welcome you to Season 3 of Scrawl, in which we pour one out for our fallen (read: graduated or newly-employed) comrades, Natalie Desjardins,…

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Writing about Writing

Learn Something New Right Now and It Won’t Cost A Cent

Another day, another free source of information on the Internet!  This one’s particularly cool, though; now art students and enthusiasts of all stripes can access the Guggenheim…

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Peer Writing Tutoring

Tutor Training: Technological approaches considered

As a new tutor with one quarter under my belt, it was interesting to see how much time and preparation is put into the reopening of the…