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…
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.
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…
Last month, the DePaul Humanities Center invited George Saunders to read from his newest story collection, The Tenth of December, which is, according to The New York Times, already the…
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What’s in a Square?
In Conversation & Culture yesterday, one partaker pointed out that Chicago doesn’t really have anywhere to gather, at least not in a way he expected. New Year’s…