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Excel Meets Moleskin

  Entering a completely unknown world can be unnerving.  When a business major, specifically Accounting, is thrown into a brainstorming machine of writing and English majors, the…

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SCRAWL S11E11 How to be an activist in 140 characters #slacktivism

Good morning Scrawl Nation! What’s trending nowadays? #Facebookdown? #BellLetsTalk? #collegefession?

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UCWbLing on the Prairie

What a better way to break up the mid-Monday doldrums then attending CMWR’s quarterly Walk and Talk! Last quarter, the Collaborative for Multi-Cultural Writing and Reading visited…

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Writing Fellows: A New and Improved Program

The Writing Fellows Program is a cornerstone of DePaul’s University Center for Writing-based Learning. It is comprised of peer-writing tutors who are matched with classes that they work…

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Taking Down Those Writing Fears

“I’m a bad writer.” Don’t panic. I’m not revealing a deeply-imbedded internal struggle. However, I do hear variations of this statement on a regular basis. Writers often…

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New Beginnings, the Blues, and Coffee: Surviving Winter Quarter

Winter Quarter at DePaul began with a record-shattering bitter cold, and heading to class after a cancellation on Monday, I felt as though I have faced the…

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The CMWR Takes Apart the Atomic Bomb

The Collaborative for Multilingual Writing and Research (CMWR) enjoyed another great Autumn Quarter in our international Book Club reading Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic…

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Where in the world have you been?? ScrawlS11E10

“Good morning Scrawl Nation!” Ahh, the sweet, familiar sound of a good, mornin’ Scrawl. DePaul’s favorite rhetorical radio show  kicked off its winter quarter 2015 season by welcoming…

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Writing about Writing

Writing With and Through Depression

Whether it’s just the winter blues or a diagnosis of depression, the state of your mood can really affect the quality of a person’s writing and even…

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Graphic Novels? Uh, yes

Why are there no literature classes focusing on works like The Watchmen by Alan Moore or Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi? There is such a bias in today’s…