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New Media Writing about Writing

Nice article. How about a digital beer?

Tomorrow, on June 29, Wikipedia will add a new way of giving feedback to its contributors.  The ‘WikiLove‘ feature is modeled after Facebook’s ‘Like’ button, a medium…

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Peer Writing Tutoring Writing about Writing

The Presidency Is Being Campaigned For! Politics and the Power of the Passive Voice

Americans will choose their next president on November 6, 2012.  Although this is many months away, the campaign for the presidency is already in full swing.  Each…

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Scrawl Radio

Sustainable Scrawling

For those who don’t know, Scrawl–the UCWbL’s radio show–is live every Friday at 11am on Radio DePaul. When you’re told to listen to a writing center’s radio…

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New Media

Live Mocha

Last week I told you guys about SharedTalk. Apparently, another free site with similar goals but different features exists as well, known as LiveMocha.com. Live Mocha is…

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Writing about Writing

The Deliciously Maddening Process of Writing

Writing can be a maddening process, as many writers will attest to.  Finding the right word or the right sentence that captures perfectly the ideas in your…

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New Media Outreach and Events Writing about Writing

Camp NaNoWriMo

Hello there writers. For those of you who don’t know, NaNoWriMo—National Novel Writing Month—is an annual challenge for writers to write a novel (or 50,000 words of…

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Scrawl Radio

Scrawl Call

Ever wanted to do a reading or performance of your work for a live audience? Fiction, non-fiction, poetry, song, script or screenplay? Scrawl—the UCWbL’s own radio show—is…

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New Media Writing about Writing

Shared Talk

Are you studying a foreign language? Have you always wanted to become pen-pals with someone else who speaks the language, but don’t know very many people? And/or…

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Outreach and Events Writing about Writing

DePaul Summer Writing Conference

Hey there, lovers of writing. Summer is underway (despite what the ambiguous weather may suggest), which also means that DePaul’s Summer Writing Conference is going to be…

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Writing about Writing

Summer Reading Staff Picks…Part 9!

Happy Friday, bloggers! And congrats on the last official day of classes!  Start your weekend out right by writing down these three staff picks from Danielle, Molly,…