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Excel Meets Moleskin

  Entering a completely unknown world can be unnerving.  When a business major, specifically Accounting, is thrown into a brainstorming machine of writing and English majors, the…

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Studying Abroad and Writing: Why Travel Matters

On an uneven and small sidewalk, my classmates laughed at each other’s silly inside jokes. We walk away from a restaurant only a few hundred feet past…

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Why writers shouldn’t be afraid

Before I joined the UCWbL team as a peer tutor, I had an image of the Writing Center tutors all being literature majors that sat up in…

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Writing Fellows: A New and Improved Program

The Writing Fellows Program is a cornerstone of DePaul’s University Center for Writing-based Learning. It is comprised of peer-writing tutors who are matched with classes that they work…

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Taking Down Those Writing Fears

“I’m a bad writer.” Don’t panic. I’m not revealing a deeply-imbedded internal struggle. However, I do hear variations of this statement on a regular basis. Writers often…

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New Beginnings, the Blues, and Coffee: Surviving Winter Quarter

Winter Quarter at DePaul began with a record-shattering bitter cold, and heading to class after a cancellation on Monday, I felt as though I have faced the…

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Writing With and Through Depression

Whether it’s just the winter blues or a diagnosis of depression, the state of your mood can really affect the quality of a person’s writing and even…

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Using Assistive Technology in Writing Centers

Whenever you’re writing or collaborating with someone, you probably have a favorite go-to tactic to brainstorm or write. However, as tutors, we should consider going outside of…

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Graphic Novels? Uh, yes

Why are there no literature classes focusing on works like The Watchmen by Alan Moore or Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi? There is such a bias in today’s…

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Peer Career Advisor VS Peer Writing Tutor

As a sophomore, I have already built some level of comfort with my goals as a professionally developing individual. Those goals are mainly focused on combining my…