If there’s one thing I find difficult, it’s focusing on one project for a prolonged amount of time. Not to say that it’s impossible, or that having the…
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.
Does syntax make your head spin? Do sentence diagrams fill you with dread? Are you awash in anguish over alliteration? Or do you happen to be someone…
Two quarters ago, I took a class that really made me step out of my comfort zone. It was a communications class called “Performance: Communication, Creativity, and…
In the 7ish years that I’ve been blogging, I’ve written 53 posts. 1,423 sentences. 21,174 words. For those of you looking for your calculators, that’s roughly 1…
Yes, you heard me correctly. If you come in for an appointment between the hours of 12pm and 4pm on Monday, May 9th (that’s today!); Wednesday, May…
Some writing is hard to read. It’s a fact of academia and common writing alike. Whether you’re sifting through Freud and attempting to make sense of his…
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How to Journal Regularly
Journaling is a practice that dates back to at least the 10th century in Japan. Writing in a journal gives an outlet for your feelings, ideas…
It is without a doubt that many of us at DePaul, regardless of where we may be in our college experience, have had the e-portfolio assignment. As…
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Food, fun, and fairs
I walked along the stalls of cows. There were different breeds–most I didn’t know, but I could name a few (Hereford, Jersey, and of course the Black…
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Haven’t I Seen This Before?
Speaking as someone who watches a LOT of movies, I’m pretty familiar with common story-lines and thematic elements that occur on a film-to-film basis. As a reader,…