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.…
Category: Peer Writing Tutoring
Reflections on tutor’s professional experiences and poignant advice about the role itself; challenges they faced and/or victories with their important teachings; the divergent writerly genres one might encounter; and the scope of such position beyond the Writing Center
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…
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…
DePaul’s School for New Learning (SNL) provides adult students opportunities to learn from experience and gain academic credit by recognizing and developing certain competencies. It should be…
This Friday, May 13th, the UCWbL’s Collaborative for Multilingual Writing and Research will be hosting a workshop on how social media can help improve language learning skills. If…
Software that allows you to annotate, save and share websites with others not only makes web research more manageable but allows for greater opportunities for collaboration. Sites…
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,…
With midterms looming and the end of the quarter in sight I thought I would share some advice and encouragement with the lovely and possibly avid readers…
“DePaul University is a learning community that fosters the pursuit of knowledge and the transmission of ideas within a context that emphasizes a sense of responsibility for…
Recently I have come to a very interesting conclusion. The five paragraph essay that we learned to write back in high school was possibly the most valuable…