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DePaul’s Banned Books Week Events (Doesn’t Include Banning Books)

Banned Books Week runs September 30 through October 6. Along with DePaul University Libraries we are celebrating free speech all week long! See the details after the…

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Outreach and Events Writing about Writing

Chat with a Tutor: A Force for Democracy?

The UCWbL’s highly popular Chat with a Tutor service is back and better than ever. Let’s take a look at how to use it–and why you should.

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Outreach and Events

Happy Thirtieth Anniversary, Banned Books Week!

Banned Books Week is observing its thirtieth anniversary at the end of the month, and we at the UCWbL will be hosting some great events during this…

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Outreach and Events Writing about Writing

Review of the 2012 First-Year Program Writing Showcase

Mid-May brings with it lots of exciting signs of the end of yet another academic year… My favorite sign, (and whose planning committee I volunteer on throughout…

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Outreach and Events Writing about Writing

Join us for the Threshold Launch Party!

Threshold, DePaul’s student-run arts and literary journal, is having a party for the release of its spring edition this Friday.  Join us at the DePaul Art Museum,…

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Outreach and Events Writing about Writing

Hot Topics in Writing: Rage Against the Writing Machine

The Hot Topics in Writing team has found a way to talk about prewriting that won’t put you to sleep! In this episode, Matt and Mo explore the…

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Outreach and Events Writing about Writing

WRITE CLUB will infuse your life with meaning

I can see you now: despondent, lonely, doubtless trundling unlikely amounts of ice cream into your trembling food hole. You reach weakly for your notebook/laptop/what have you…

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Outreach and Events Peer Writing Tutoring

Tutoring with Visual Rhetoric

Last Friday my fellow Faculty Development and Research team members and I explored our artsy-fartsy sides with an inservice titled “Tutoring with Visual Rhetoric” in preparation for…

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New Media Outreach and Events Writing about Writing

Narratives for the Earth

Tuesday marks the second day of Earth Week 2012, which leads up to Earth day on the 22nd, and the world is abuzz with talk about the…

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Multilingualism Outreach and Events Writing about Writing

CMWR Celebrates Poetry Across Borders and Boundaries

We text, we tweet, and we Facebook, but do we lyricize? Plato argued that “Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history,” and Robert Fitzgerald contended that…