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My Advice: Don’t Take Any Advice At All

        I recently discovered this lovely blog consisting of pictures of authors scribbling advice for aspiring writers on their hands. The authors are mainly fantasy authors, but…

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Tutoring via Webcam

Here at the UCWbL, we like to keep up with the times. Therefore, without further ado, let me introduce our latest appointment option: tutoring via webcam! As…

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Om, not um

What’s so wrong with being quiet? Susan Cain’s TED Talk The Power of Introverts sparked this question last week in the Loop Writing Center. In America, we…

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Coming to Terms with ePortfolios

When creating a Digication page we all seem to stress over getting the coding right. Do we want borders or not? What color should the background be?…

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Facebooking for knowledge

I’m finishing my Master’s degree here at DePaul very soon, but I have to admit something.  Some of the most interesting things I’ve learned in the past…

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Welcome Back Conversation and Culture! Have a Hot Dog

WE’RE BACK! HURRAH! HUZZAH! HUZOO! Hey Conversation & Culture friends! How was spring break? Did you go to Disney World? Miami? I know a couple people wanted…

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4 short stories set in Chicago

Temperatures broke the 50˚F mark this past weekend, so all of us rain-soaked Chicagoans are crossing our fingers with the hope that summer might actually be on…

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Directive Tutoring or Overt Plagiarism?

In “Can I Help You With That?: Directive Tutoring And The Status Of Contextual Information In The Writing Center,” the most recent Tutor’s Column from the Writing…

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Are Images As Important As Text?

Call me academically “tapped in”, but ever since starting both “Design Rhetorics” (New Media Studies 508) and “Text and Image” (New Media Studies 504) last week, I…

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Senioritis: The Diseased Mind of a Tutor Nearing Graduation

Coming back for my last quarter at DePaul, I find myself extremely unmotivated. As a result I can no longer deny that I suffer from the disease…