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Featured UCWbLer: Destiny P.

Destiny P. is a second-year UCWbLer who has worked as a Peer Writing Tutor, Writing Fellow, Workshops Facilitator, Receptionist, and a Writing Group Facilitator. All of her…

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Featured UCWbLer: Jake D.

Meet Jake D. Jake D. is one of the University Center for Writing-based Learning’s Head Writing Tutors. He has many responsibilities at the UCWbL and explains how…

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Professional Development

Getting Involved In Academic Discourse: You Got Accepted! What Now?

You got accepted! Congratulations! I knew if you tried you could certainly do it. So, what happens now? Part of the process of preparing for that presentation…

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Getting Involved in Academic Discourse: The Proposal

You found a conference? Awesome! But now they’re asking that you submit a proposal and you have no idea how or why you ought do this. It’s…

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Getting Involved in Academic Discourse: Finding Academic Conferences

If you’ve been following this series, you might be at the point where you are ready to submit your work. However, you also might find yourself now…

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Getting Involved in Academic Discourse: To Conference or Not to Conference?

Short Answer: Yes. But the most important part of any answer typically revolves around the why.   It is no secret that academic conferences have an air…

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National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing (NCPTW 2016)

Every year at the UCWbL we set goals at the beginning of fall quarter. During my first year at the UCWbL, my goal was to present at any…

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Peer & Tutor Mentor Summit 2016: What Needs To Be Done?

Over the last two years I have had the privilege of finding my voice and place among the Peer Mentor and Tutor community at DePaul University. As…

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Why do we create Portfolios?

It is without a doubt that many of us at DePaul, regardless of where we may be in our college experience, have had the e-portfolio assignment. As…

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Pre-Writing: Why it is an important part of the writing process

I am sure most people have heard of the term “pre-writing,” but many people either do their writing without much premeditation or are unaware of their pre-writing…