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UCWbL Workshops Update

The UCWbL Workshops Team is off to a busy start in the 2014 Autumn Quarter! We have already facilitated several in-class workshops on the topics of Digication,…

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Writing about Writing

Cracking the Block: 8 Suggestions for Defeating Writer’s Block

We’ve all been there. You have a paper due (tomorrow!), and as you sit there staring at your computer screen, the words just will not come. How…

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Outreach and Events Peer Writing Tutoring Writing about Writing

UCWbLing 102 Staff Training

Agenda Share: what blogs do you read? Discuss: why does the UCWbL have a blog? Brainstorm blog topics in groups Read & Reflect: “How to Write an…

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Live From DePaul, It’s SNL! (Scrawl S11 E02)

Hello Scrawl Nation! This week’s episode of Scrawl Radio was all about SNL. And while this SNL doesn’t have Tina Fey or Amy Poehler as alumni, the…

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Peer Writing Tutoring Writing about Writing

Uncovering Your Tacit Knowledge

As students, teachers, and writers, we know many things.  We know about events. We know information and data and facts.  Most likely, we are familiar with this…

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Writing about Writing

Peer Tutor and Mentor Summit 2014: Interview with Keynote Speaker, Raul Palma

The Outreach Team is excited to start talking about DePaul University’s fifth Peer Tutor and Mentor Summit, which will be taking place on Friday, October 31, 2014…

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Two Years Later: A Look Back at my DePaul/UCWbL Journey

As I sit here in the Loop location of the UCWbL (because frankly, where else would I be?), I cannot believe that spring quarter is almost finished.…

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An UCWbL In-Need: My Plea for a Writing Center Mascot

Despite the e-Portfolio maintenance, the quarterly inservices, coffee and commenting, or work you do with the team you’re on, our jobs at the Writing Center come down…

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Multilingualism Writing about Writing

The CMWR Takes a Trip to Chinatown

Spring weather has finally decided to come to Chicago, and it was just in time for the CMWR’s Walk and Talk to Chinatown.

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Collaboration And Knowing What You Can Do

According to one of my favorite pirates, Jack Sparrow, “The only rules that really matter are these: what a man can do and what a man can’t…