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…
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 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…
I’ve always wanted to participate in National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo); there’s something romantic and adventurous about a group of over-caffeinated writers typing furiously to beat their…
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The Danger of “Peerness”
It is no secret that here at the UCWbL, we pride ourselves on practicing the concept of “peerness”. From peer tutors to peer writing fellows, we always…
Here at the UCWbL we a pretty straight forward philosophy: everyone who writes is a writer, all writers can improve through revision, but these theories do not…
The curriculum of DePaul’s School for New Learning requires SNL students to complete an “Advanced Project,” similar to a capstone or thesis project that concludes your academic…