As I embarked on my journey to write my Honors Senior Thesis, I believed that I had harnessed the experiences necessary to write without a problem. Since…
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.
For our peer writing tutor class, Writing, Rhetoric, and Discourse 395, Valerie M. and I focused on the transferable skills that are learned through Writing Center work.…
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Asking for Help
I’m sure we’ve all been there before – you’re in class, you’ve just completed a lecture, and you’re feeling very confused about what it is you just…
I was introduced to adrienne maree brown’s book Emergent Strategy in one of my dramaturgy classes, though the book never says anything about theatre. The book– which…
There’s always work to be done in the UCWbL in regards to linguistic justice. Gatekeeping remains overt and pervasive within academic and rhetorical spaces even as we…
If you think that all of the skills we’ve learned while tutoring at the Writing Center will be useless after we graduate, think again. In my early…
One of our mottos at the UCWbL is to meet writers where they are. This can mean where writers are in the writing process, the writing experience…
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Introducing the New Editor
Hello, writers! My name is Grace T and I am the new UCWbLing blog editor. I’m a first-year graduate student in the Creative Writing and Publishing program.…
First and foremost, welcome to the DePaul Writing Center, aka the UCWbL. If you’re reading this and we haven’t met, my name is Paul D. and I’ll…
Usually, when meditation is brought up in conversation as a possible solution to one’s problem, it is often met with the response of, “Oh no, I can’t…