I have a confession to make: I absolutely love lists. Writing them, reading them, going over them in my head – call it a compulsion, or a…
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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.
The CMWR’s Friday Forum is up and running for Winter Quarter, and this conversation-based group reads through a short text on different aspects of American culture and…
“Open Science, Open Minds.” That’s the slogan of Intech, an online resource with a wealth of science journals (and books) available for download, for free! I remember stumbling…
Hi all! Threshold, DePaul’s premier student-run literary journal, is still accepting submissions for its Spring 2012 issue. Submit your fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, or dramatic literature to…
When I first signed up for my literary editing course, I didn’t really think it would have much in common with my tutoring job. I mean, we’re…
Comedian Sean Hill is bringing new meaning to the term “short story.” His tiny tales (all of them under the 140-character limit imposed by Twitter) are strangely…
Recently, I finally pushed past my fear of making purchases greater than a month’s rent and registered for this year’s Association of American Geographers (AAG) conference in…
Threshold is DePaul’s premier student-run literary journal, and they’re accepting submissions now for the Spring 2012 issue! If you’re a poet, a writer, or just someone interested…
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Our Books, Ourselves
Question time: would you think less of someone for reading a certain book or kind of book? Might you form an opinion about the person sitting across…
The UCWbL’s Conversation Partner appointments offer English language learners the unique opportunity to practice conversational English in the Writing Center. Since Conversation Partner appointments are so new…