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International Writing Centers Week: Sorry for Partying

A major shout-out to everybody at DePaul University for making this past International Writing Centers Week one of the best yet.  It’s been an especially good time…

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Celebrate International Writing Centers Week Blue Demon-style

Party people: it’s that time again.  This week marks International Writing Centers Week, a time for celebrating the writer within.  The University Center for Writing-based Learning here…

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First-Year Writing Showcase 2013: Let There Be Awesomeness

The First-Year Writing Showcase is back, and we’re kind of obsessed with it here at the UCWbL.  The showcase accepts submissions from students across DePaul’s First Year…

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Register for your first-ever MOOC

What are MOOCs? On Sunday, Thomas Friedman of The World Is Flat fame had this to say about this recent development in higher education: “Nothing has more…

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See the Call for Papers for MWCA 2013 Chicago

The call for papers for the Midwest Writing Center Assocation’s 2013 conference is officially out!  Share it widely with your colleagues and peers. Read the full CFP…

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Idioms: The Natural Imagery of Language

You have arrived in Chicago from your home country and are feeling excited to try out the English you had been practicing in school. Things are going…

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Submit to DePaul WRD’s Annual Graduate Conference

More good news from our friends in the Writing, Rhetoric, & Discourse program: the call for papers for this year’s Spread the WoRD conference is out! This…

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Who Likes Free Grad School?

Writers, writing teachers, and aspiring comp/rhet theorists: if you’re looking to get your Master’s degree sometime soon, then make sure you look into applying for a graduate…

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Help Us Make Threshold Awesome

DePaul’s Literary Magazine, Threshold, is now accepting submissions from any and all writers!

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Closed for Winterizing

Beginning today, our UCWbLers are taking a well-deserved rest.  We’ll be back for Winter Quarter 2013 with more coverage of the peer writing tutor community.  Until then,…