Look, the job market isn’t great right now. Luckily, you can hold yourself down with your writing skills – which I know you have, you. Here are…
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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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Memorial Day Traditions
The grill is cooking and the weather is fine. It’s that time of year again: time to fire up the barbie, invite some friends over, and remember…
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Crook & Folly Launch Party
DePaul University presents the 36th annual edition of Crook & Folly! This year’s launch will take place at the DePaul Art Museum on Thursday, May 26th from…
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The Rhetorical Uprising
Although I was initially hesitant to submit this post to UCWbLing due to the odd format I’m using (it’s quite different from the usual reflective or research-based…
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…
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…