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Super Literacy Bros: Video Games and the Future of Literacy

Recently in one of my classes, a fellow student made the remark that video games are pointless and that they should all be eradicated in favor of…

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May 8. Stanley Fish. DePaul. Be there.

On Wednesday, May 8, the DePaul Humanities Center hosts Stanley Fish, who daylights as an influential American literary theorist and moonlights as a New York Times columnist. Titled…

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RSVP now for UIC’s first-year writing symposium!

On Friday, April 26 the University of Illinois-Chicago is hosting Composition Matters, a symposium with a lineup of composition scholars so great it rivals the ’95-’96 Bulls…

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Have you RSVP’d yet to Spread the WoRD?

The Department of Writing, Rhetoric, & Discourse’s spring conference is coming up very soon on Saturday, May 11. You can RSVP here, and if you haven’t responded…

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Submit your work to EGSA 2013 by Monday, April 8!

The conferences just keep coming.  DePaul’s very own English Graduate Student Assocation’s spring conference is on the horizon, and luckily, they’ve pushed back the deadline for submissions…

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MWCA 2013 proposals are due today!

The Midwest Writing Center Association will meet October 17 through 19 in Chicago, and proposals for the annual conference are due today! Review the guidelines and submit…

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We’ll be back!

UCWbLing is hard work, and so as DePaul goes on Spring Break, many of our writers are taking a break, cutting loose and migrating to sunnier weather.…

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Join us this Monday for late-nite tutoring

There’s nothing quite like the Richardson Library during Finals Week.  When the sun sinks low and the library’s 24-hour schedule begins, the slender stacks of books, the…

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Not a math person? Not anymore.

Many of us in the humanities are thrilled with the rise of interdisciplinary studies, but I’m willing to bet there are a few comp-rhet and literature folks…

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DePaul pro-tip: Check out the music school’s jazz combos

DePaul is a big deal for lots of reasons.  Besides having one of the largest writing centers, staff-wise, in the history of the world (I’m totally serious),…