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Writing FEST: Rhetoric of Festival Marketing (Scrawl S10 E6)

Hello Scrawl Nation! For this week’s episode of Scrawl Radio, we talked about marketing for large events, like music festivals! Just outside the studio, the DePaul Activities…

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Writing about Writing

An UCWbL In-Need: My Plea for a Writing Center Mascot

Despite the e-Portfolio maintenance, the quarterly inservices, coffee and commenting, or work you do with the team you’re on, our jobs at the Writing Center come down…

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Scrawl Radio

Reviewing Literature Reviews (Scrawl S10 E5)

Hello Scrawl Nation! For this week’s episode of Scrawl Radio, we decided to examine a very unique but still commonly used type of writing: the literature review!…

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Scrawl Radio

How To Avoid An E-Fail (Scrawl S10 E4)

Hello Scrawl Nation! Last week’s episode of Scrawl Radio was all about email etiquette!

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Writing about Writing

Door Mats and Matadors: What Frank Underwood Taught Me about Writing

The new season of House of Cards was released on Valentine’s Day, marking the return of the duplicitous Frank Underwood on his quest for power. In the…

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Peer Writing Tutoring

Fellowing as Fisticuffs: Why Being A Fellow Should Require Combat Training

The Writing Fellows program at the UCWbL is a direct example of our writing-across-curriculum (WAC) approach to academic writing here at DePaul. It can be wonderful to…

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Scrawl Radio

LGBTQA Month Celebration! (Scrawl S10 E3)

Hello Scrawl Nation! This week on Scrawl Radio we celebrated the beginning of LGBTQA Month at DePaul by interviewing Harry Denny, director of the writing center at…

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Writing about Writing

Don’t Take Shortcuts; Write the Long Way

I am a dying breed of writer. I use pens, lose pens and throw empty ones away. I tear notebook pages and legal pads, date them, fold…

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Writing about Writing

How To “Write” Write

An interesting side-effect of working at the UCWbL is that to some of my friends, I’m now an accessible resource to help them on their assignments whenever…

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Scrawl Radio

SAAM PSAs are A-OK! (Scrawl S10 E2)

Hello Scrawl Nation! This week’s episode of Scrawl featured guests Carolyn Rudinsky and Clare Stuber (or, as we love to call them, C & C Music Factory)…