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…
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.
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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. Â The new site features some slick branding work from the UCWbL’s…
A few minutes ago, a fellow writing tutor and I were discussing the recent phenomenon of Google Glass. For anyone who may not be familiar with this…
Attention writers! You know that painstakingly complicated research project you’re working on? Or that long-forgotten report from your WRD class that’s gathering virtual dust in the depths…
When you read a book, what’s one of the first things you notice? Is it the setting? Is it the use of concrete versus abstract details? Is…
Writing is dangerous business. Throughout history, ranks of frustrated and despondent novelists and poets have made the image of the down-and-out writer a pop culture fixture. The…
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Suck It Up and Take It
I usually have no problem taking criticism. Well, not when it comes to my writing at least. I know the value of a workshop class and I…
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Lingo Unchained
Since 1976, Lake Superior State University has compiled an annual list of words and phrases that its creators would like to expunge from the English language. Â When…