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Hot Topics in Writing: Editors and Editing

The first episode of the second season of Hot Topics in Writing,the UCWbL’s podcast, is finally available below for your streaming-audio pleasure! In this thirty minute show,…

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Free downloadable media from Chicago Public Libraries

Last week I finally got my Chicago Public Library (CPL) card at the Sulzer Regional Library in Ravenswood. If you live in Chicago or if you are…

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Online Feedback for Hopeful Fiction Writers

Julie Bosman’s recent NY Times article, “Aspiring Authors Get Help Online” announces Penguin Group’s newest endeavor: Book Country, a website that allows writers to post their fiction…

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Try Out for TED Talks

For the first time since it began in the early 1980s, the non-profit TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design) is opening up their speaking platform to us plebs.…

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New Media

When Nixon Met Elvis

While waiting on a few books being sent through inter-library loan to come in, I happened upon some research topics other than the ones I have been…

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Digication Now A Google App

According to Digication’s blog, as of January 25th, the Digication e-portfolio is now a Google App.

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Prelude to Hot Topics in Writing, Season 2

Hot Topics in Writing, the UCWbL’s spellbinding podcast series, is making a glorious return to the Information Superhighway this academic year. Katie K. and Caylie S., the…

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New Media Research

Words, Shm-ords: The Question of “Writing” and The Possibility of Other Literacies

(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…

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Write from home and start earning $$$ today!

Admittedly, the headline of this entry echoes the sort of e-mails I encounter in the Spam folder of my Gmail account. But, yes, you can actually make…

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Politics and the English Language

What would George Orwell think? While the origins of textual analysis dates back to ancient times, the use of computers to analyze texts is a recent development.