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Training season at the UCWbL: a view from the other side

Spiced cider…  The bursting colors of turning leaves…  The soft sounds of your “Fall” playlist on Spotify…  There are a number of reasons why we look forward…

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Playing the Waiting Game

The Breakroom, a new office comedy show created by UCWbL staff, depicts everyday tutoring scenarios in the writing center through a satirical lense. The latest episode discusses an…

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Creative Writing Tutorials: Don’t run for the hills just yet

Lurking in the shadows of walk-in tutorials, obsessing over sections of the UCWbL Handbook, guzzling Starbucks coffee by the pot, the new tutors wait to be unleashed…

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Research Team Presents In-Service, Crowd Goes Wild

This morning the Research Team led the second in-service of the autumn quarter.  For the past year the Team has been assessing the effectiveness of UCWbL practices…

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Alice’s Adventures in UCWbLand

“The Hatter opened his eyes very wide…but all he said was, ‘How is a raven like a writing desk?’ ”

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Research Team In-Service

Attention, UCWbLers! Research Team here! Have you ever wanted to know how students feel about your work as tutors? Have you ever wondered how many tutorials the…

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I’m a Writing Center Tutor – Now What?

Even though I’m only at the start of my career as a new DePaul University Writing Center tutor, it feels like I’ve been getting on-the-job training all…

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Mirror, mirror on the wall which is the English-est English of them all?

In preparation for a workshop this fall, the Collaborative for Multilingual Writing and Research (CMWR) has been doing a lot of research on American accents and dialects.…

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Peer Writing Tutoring Writing about Writing

The Presidency Is Being Campaigned For! Politics and the Power of the Passive Voice

Americans will choose their next president on November 6, 2012.  Although this is many months away, the campaign for the presidency is already in full swing.  Each…

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Types of Writing: Digication E-portfolios

Some colleagues of mine at the UCWbL have written up a great piece to help those of you working on Digication e-portfolios. If you need some advice…