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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
On April 4 Chicago lost Roger Ebert, a writer and critic of boundless energy. When I was growing up, his movie reviews were one of my Friday…
Faculty: are you interested in participating in WRITE, DePaul’s new faculty Writing Group? Since this will be a high-tech, inter-campus, inter-disciplinary effort, here are some specifics and…
Imagine that your workday goes something like this: you get out of bed, queue up your computer or handheld device, and set to work on your Human…
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Proposal Writing Workshop
Today we conducted a workshop with the Undergraduate Admissions counselors on the topic of writing proposals for a range of tasks and goals. In the workshop itself,…
Michael Jackson told us to dance, and I’m here to remind us. This week in the CMWR’s Conversation and Culture we talked a lot about body language.…
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NCPTW gets a new look
The website of the preposition-rich National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing has had a facelift. The new site features some slick branding work from the UCWbL’s…