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Understanding DePaul’s School for New Learning Jargon

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…

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Get Connected: Using Social Media to Enhance Your Language Learning

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…

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Tools for annotating and sharing on the web

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…

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Hot Topics in Writing: Editors and Editing

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,…

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Sometimes You Need More Than One Sentence for a Thesis

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…

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Plagiarism & Academic Integrity: Talked to death? Or not?

“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…

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The Power of the Five

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…

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Outposted

So this is officially my last new tutor blog entry.  Yesterday I had both my first day at the Richardson Library Outpost and my exit interview to…

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You Got Internet in my OED!

So recently the Oxford English Dictionary has added “LOL,” “OMG” and a heart symbol as new additions to the English language. A fellow UCWbLer expressed trepidation over…

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Bringing People Together: Help for SNL writers and UCWbL tutors

Does this scenario sound familiar?   An SNL (School for New Learning) writer comes into the writing center and sits down with a tutor to work on…