Publication is an exciting opportunity that allows a writer to share their work with a broader audience and to establish themselves in their field. When I finished…
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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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Funny UCWbL Origin Stories
While some UCWbLers want to make sure that they dress to impress, other tutors are bold enough to remove their eyebrow during a job interview. Enjoy some…
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…
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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,…