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…
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.
Upon my admission to DePaul and subsequent decision to pursue screenwriting, I entered the fall of my freshman year with a very nervous kind of excitement. I…
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An Audience of One
Sometimes I cannot bring myself to write. Sometimes I cannot bring myself to write at all. I sit at the chair with an empty mind and shake…
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Prioritizing the Global
As I consider my development as a tutor and writer over my three years working as at the UCWbL, I can see how much I have come…
Look anywhere online and you can find articles bemoaning the difficulties COVID-19 has wrought on people’s ability to maintain a social life. Despite the constraints that social…
I recently had an Online Realtime appointment with a writer who was looking to add sources to her research paper on creating a diverse workplace. We scoured…
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Choosing a Citation Style
Picture this: you receive the assignment guidelines and rubric for an upcoming written assignment. Your professor requires in-text citations and a Works Cited or References page at…
During quarantine, a lot of people have gotten back into reading for fun, and I’m definitely one of them. I hadn’t read a book that wasn’t for…
Verb tenses are one of those grammar concepts that tend to be difficult for native speakers to identify and speak on in a metalinguistic way. As a…
As a tutor, my self-perceptions on my grammatical strengths have been pretty confident from the start—I’ve been able to explain surface-level concepts regarding sentence structure, parts of…