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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Reflections and insights from UCWbLers engaged in internal research projects and with scholarships related to Writing Center work, writing studies, and other relevant fields of study.
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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.
The research team is back in Chicago after an exciting weekend in Kalamazoo, Michigan for the East Central Writing Center Association’s (ECWCA) annual conference! This was my…
You would never guess from the buzz and chatter at the 33rd East Central Writing Center Association Conference this weekend (March 3-5, 2011) that peer writing tutor…
Hello, campers. Its been such a long time since I’ve been on here. My apologies. This week, I thought we look at how editing constructs meaning (with…
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“How Language Shapes Thought,” A Review
Does the language that we speak determine how we think, or even our perceptions of the world? According to Lera Boroditsky, an Assistant Professor of Cognitive Psychology…