The UCWbL’s highly popular Chat with a Tutor service is back and better than ever. Let’s take a look at how to use it–and why you should.
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.
Coming back for my second year at the UCWbL is a totally different experience than it was last year. Sure, the tutoring is the same and nothing…
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Why I Write
A writer I recently tutored told me, albeit half-jokingly, that because she doesn’t enjoy writing, she doesn’t understand why people write. So here I am: writing to…
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Announcing Global Voices
Narratives, photographs, reflections, research…Global Voices has it all! Click here to access this years issue and to enjoy the work of DePaul University’s talented multilingual community. Global…
Matt and Mo investigate the seamy side of the written word with their Taboo Topics in Writing episode. First, Tracey H. and Matthew F. divulge their most…
Part of our work at the Writing Center includes responding to questions asked by writers from within and beyond the DePaul community. By posting the questions from writers…
Can you write? Do you need some extra cash this summer? Depending on your level of desperation (hey, we’ve all been there), consider putting your mad writing…
Question:  I am working on a professional bio. Can you tell me how to properly write this, specifically how to write out the degrees (Masters, Master, master,…
I think we can all agree, personal statements are the worst. Â Hated and feared by the high schooler, and blacked out over the undergraduate years, it’s no…
Mid-May brings with it lots of exciting signs of the end of yet another academic year… My favorite sign, (and whose planning committee I volunteer on throughout…