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Why Can’t Shakespeare Go to Jail?: Thoughts on Literature Banned from American Prisons

Banned Books Week is an annual time to recognize and contemplate the “objectionable” literature in America: texts that sects of society have deemed morally, religiously, sexually, racially,…

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Outreach and Events Research

Research Team to Present at MWCA Conference This Week

Exciting things are happening for the Research Team, not the least of which is our upcoming presentation at this year’s Midwest Writing Centers Association conference. This year…

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Research

Ill it er ah see: A Look at a Fundamental Problem in U.S. Education

Note: The writer apologizes for the cheesiness of this post; it could not be helped. The United States has failed in educating much of its population. In…

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Outreach and Events Peer Writing Tutoring Research

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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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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Outreach and Events Peer Writing Tutoring Research

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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New Media Research

Global Voices: Perspectives on Linguistic Diversity

The UCWbL’s Collaborative for Multilingual Writing and Research (CMWR) has just published the first issue of Global Voices, an electronic magazine that features creative and academic texts…

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Research

The Huffington Post Breaks Down the Top 8 Sites Students Plagiarize From

According to the Huffington Post, when students plagiarize from the internet, they are more likely to take information from sites like Wikipedia, as opposed to sites designed…

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Peer Writing Tutoring Research Writing about Writing

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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Font Size and Learning: Why Bigger and Bolder isn’t Necessarily Better

According to a recent New York Times article, text written in bigger, bolder font doesn’t necessarily enhance the chances that you’ll remember it.