When I was first beginning to consider applying for a job at the UCWbL, one part of the job that really caught my eye was 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.
Before I started working at the UCWbL, I never, ever, ever, EVER listened to music while writing. I thought of it as a form of multitasking: a…
When you ask UCWbL tutors which writing resources they turn to most often, most of them will respond with sites like the Purdue Owl or Grammar Girl. …
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Hear Me Out!
It isn’t often that I get stuck when writing essays. Writing is something that has always come naturally to me, especially if it is about literature. I’m…
Imagine yourself leaning forward in your chair, staring at a blank page. Midnight struck long ago, and you still have no clue what to write about. The…
Oct. 3 2014 Just so you know, I do. It’s great; it provides a semblance of order to lists and makes the sentence “I invited the strippers,…
They say possession is nine-tenths of the law. But nine-tenths of possession is culture. The ideas that surround and police concepts like “intellectual property” and “academic integrity”…
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The Sounds of Writing
I was scrolling through UCWbLing, reading my fellow UCWbLer’s posts, and I stumbled onto Maddie Natzke’s piece from a few weeks ago. Maddie talked about the power…
Writers love to get into heated debates about the best environments for writing. Many insist that the only way to avoid distraction is to be locked up…
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Research Round Up
In his article “Critiquing the Center: The Role of Tutor Evaluations in an Open Admissions Writing Center,” William Burns grapples with aligning the institutional goals of the…