According to researchers from Rice University and the University of Houston, discriminatory language used in letters of recommendation to describe women hurts their chances of being hired. After acquiring several letters of…
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Almost There
It was nerve wrecking and a little strange, but what could I really do if the writer had a great handle on her assignment and it was…
I had the opportunity to sit in this morning on “Coffee and Commenting,” a forum for DePaul’s Writing Fellows (and some Tutors) to give and receive peer…
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A Review of Virgil
A few days ago, the online resource ‘Virgil’ was brought to my attention. This helpful writing tool was developed by the University of Texas’ Writing Center, Undergraduate…
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Grammar Plus!
When first logging on to the Capital Community College Foundation’s Guide to Grammar and Writing you may be amused by the puffy font, section bubbles and multicolored…
We’ve all been there. The essay is assigned on Monday and you have every intention of starting on Tuesday. Wednesday rolls around and you vow to spend…
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Stage Fright
I have always been fiercely defensive about my own writing. As a teenager, I remember composing my very first piece of what we now know as Creative…
(Gotta love a good colon title, yeah?) When one commonly thinks of ‘Writing,’ the idea usually looks something like this. (‘this’ being what you’re looking at right…
A recent study published by researchers from the University of Chicago was brought to my attention yesterday that discovered allowing students a few minutes to write about…
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Let the Shadowing Begin
How boring is it when you start a new job and all they do is give you a list of duties, or dry pages of a handbook…