Mad Libs are fun and zany, while traditional outlines can be tedious, limiting, and confusing. Although both involve filling in the blanks within a designated format, Mad…
Category: Writing about Writing
Lessons, tips, and reflections on being writers; especially discussing the process of composing words, different genres and their related techniques, and meaningful glimpses into their growth as authors, tutors, and readers.
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Zines 101
What is a zine? A zine is a genre that originally worked as a counter-culture method of information sharing. The format started as fan groups of media…
Greetings from Scrawl!! This Friday morning we had a great discussion about cross-culturalism and working with multilingual writers. With Mark L. of the CMWR team on as…
Meet this quarter’s Outreach Team! At the UCWbL, the Outreach Team spreads the word about the Writing Center’s services, engages with other DePaul departments, celebrates reading- and…
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FAQs on Chicago Style
At The UCWbL, tutors work with writers who use many different genres and citation styles, and we tend to be the most comfortable with those we use…
Much to my surprise, as a Political Science major, I have never had to cite sources in the American Political Science Association (APSA) format. Thus far, my…
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On Writing and Truth
I hold an ideal that supports my obsession with writing very close to heart: we not only learn to write and write to learn, but we learn…
For one of my assignments during winter quarter, I was to write a blog-post that discussed my relationship with the discourse of historical writing. Within this prompt,…
“To be admitted to membership of a particular sector of the academic profession involves not only a sufficient level of technical proficiency in one’s intellectual trade, but…
The above cartoon was featured in the Feb. 5, 2007 copy of The New Yorker. With its witty humor, the cartoon appeared funny to most readers. Until…