This is Part Two of a post appeared on UCWbLing on 04/25/2022 Something I really struggled with when I first started working as a peer tutor was…
Category: Multilingualism
Simplified explanations about the English language, its mechanics, and how other languages and its speakers may enrich the very act of writing.
When I first started working as a peer tutor at the DePaul University Center for Writing-based Learning (UCWbL), I found one of my biggest challenges to be…
Look anywhere online and you can find articles bemoaning the difficulties COVID-19 has wrought on people’s ability to maintain a social life. Despite the constraints that social…
Verb tenses are one of those grammar concepts that tend to be difficult for native speakers to identify and speak on in a metalinguistic way. As a…
As a tutor, my self-perceptions on my grammatical strengths have been pretty confident from the start—I’ve been able to explain surface-level concepts regarding sentence structure, parts of…
What is a comma? When should it be used? A comma (,) is a punctuation mark used to indicate separation within a sentence. They help to group…
The Basics Expletive constructions are phrases like “there is”, “here are”, and “it seems” that typically serve to introduce the content of a sentence. Just because a…
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My Experience as a Student Abroad
During the summer of 2014, I embarked on a two-week journey to a foreign country. I was in high school at the time so I was only…
During the last couple quarters, the research team has participated in many assessment projects, aimed at assessing the current state of our writing center and our various…
As a long-time member of the The Collaborative For Multilingual Writing & Research(CMWR) here at DePaul’s University Center for Writing-based Learning (UCWbL), it’s easy for me to…