With the closing of Borders, it’s starting to seem like there are more used bookstores in Chicago than first-hand bookstores. Certainly used bookstores ARE “green” — keeping…
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I’ve never read Moby-Dick. Yes. I’m an English major, and I haven’t read it. It wasn’t assigned in high school, and the quarter system here at DePaul…
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Preventing Tutor Fatigue
We’ve all had it happen. You’ve had four face-to-face appointments so far today, your eyes hurt from staring at your computer screen, and in walks your next…
Beyond the typographical errors (or stylistic choices? Hey, he’s following his own tip number 13.) of Jack Kerouac’s “Belief and Technique for Modern Prose” lie gems of…
Groundbreaking research on BCI’s–“brain-computer interfaces” has stirred up a lot of excitement in the science world. The possibility of technology that responds directly to your brainwaves is…
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Blast From The Past (Scrawl S2 E8)
Hello Scrawl Nation! On this episode, the gang plays some blasts from the past. The team discusses what writers teach us peer tutors and how much we…
So, most of my posts here on UCWbLing have been committed to DePaul’s fave portfolio tool: Digication. But, with finals week just around the corner (breathe), I…
On October 20th, the University Center for Writing-based Learning celebrated the National Day on Writing on both the Lincoln Park and Loop campuses. The event was a…
On Friday October 7, the Collaborative for Multilingual Writing and Research (CMWR) hosted our first Conversation Group, an initiative designed to address the needs of DePaul and…
A little known fact about writing centers is that we are always engaging in cutting-edge research, and right now, scholarship on online tutoring is all the rage. …