Greetings DePaul students and faculty! On this week’s episode of the lovely Scrawl Radio show, we will be discussing leadership and what it takes to be a…
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.
We all wondered how Tom Hanks got Meg Ryan to fall in love with him via AOL in “You’ve Got Mail” – especially because AOL was slow as…
Hello Scrawl Nation! We’re back for the final season of the 2014-2015 academic calendar, and we’ve started off with a bang! Today we welcomed UCWbL head writing…
The weather outside may have been frightful, but members of the Collaborative for Multilingual Writing and Research (CMWR) found a delightfully warm and green corner of the…
It’s no secret that UCWbLers are proud of the new space we occupy in the SAC. With modern decor, ample, open seating, and a tech-friendly infrastructure, it’s…
When I was assigned a poem analysis paper in my ENG 220 class, I had no idea where to begin. After all, I was only a freshman…
Asking for help is, for many people, a deeply uncomfortable experience; many people are worried about appearing weak or vulnerable, and so they never ask for help.
Hey folks, take a few moments to think about this: it’s always entertaining to put stock in all kinds of ideologies that are fun and quirky, especially…
On February 18, I presented my first inservice (a staff professional development event for UCWbLers) about Using Assistive Technology in Writing Centers and, thankfully, I didn’t have…
According to the linguists Steven Weisler and Slavoljub P. Milekic, in their book Theory of Language, they estimate that “an average-educated English-speaking adult knows more than 50,000 words.” Most…