On the week of this most auspicious festival of amorousness, that is, International Writing Center Week plus Valentine’s Day, I feel it’s important to note the sheer…
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.
Short of between the walls of the UCWbL, whenever I mention that my writing process includes first writing out an outline, a list of quotes/research in general,…
On Monday, the Lincoln Park Student Center hosted the second installment of DePaul’s new writing series Aloud! The series, begun in 2012 and sponsored by the University Center for…
Statements of purpose, or personal statements, make for some of the most interesting tutorials at the UCWbL. These writers are looking forward to the next stage of their…
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Title Troubles
Titles can make or break a paper, which is funny because the last thing many of us do when writing a paper is come up with a…
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Against Flash Drives
A friend of mine who is a prolific writer had his apartment broken into not very long ago. Being a writer, he obviously didn’t have many valuables–except…
First, I want you to take a look at this: As you can see, for most of us in the US, it doesn’t seem like there’s…
In his essay “Once Upon a Time, There Was a Person Who Said ‘Once Upon a Time,’” Steve Almond uses a trend among his creative writing students…
Recently I had to complete an assignment I had no interest in. As it happens, it was not so much the subject matter which bothered me, but…
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Prompting Confidence
The prompt based paper. All college students, and most high school students, have faced this kind of paper, essay, word-based thing, save for those who have somehow…