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…
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.
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…
On Friday, October 3, 2014, an UCWbL leadership meeting merged with a freshmen EDGE student meeting, which was led by Sarah Carbone, Assistant Director of Student Employment…
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What’s a Writer?
A Conversation “You changed your major!?” “Yeah..its not a huge deal or anything.” “Can you keep your job at the Writing Center?” I dunno…can I? A Memory…
Rebels, Unite! You might not know it, but you’ve almost certainly read a challenged or banned book in your lifetime: The Great Gatsby, The Giver, Harry Potter, The…
When I write, I like to start with brainstorming ideas and then to turn those ideas into an outline. After rounding up a copious supply of writing…