Have you visited Chinatown yet? You should! Chinatown is one of those neighborhoods that allows you to feel transported; you can pretend you are in a different…
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.
Question: Where do I use the apostrophe? I wanted to ensure our teams win. Is it team’s win or teams’ win? Or do I not use one?
I can see you now: despondent, lonely, doubtless trundling unlikely amounts of ice cream into your trembling food hole. You reach weakly for your notebook/laptop/what have you…
I try not to be too evaluative in my tutorials (or even my Written Feedback). Of course, there’s always a time to reassure the writer that they’re…
Congrats to Lauri Dietz on completing her Teaching and Learning Certificate.
Ever wish you could have learned from something more engaging than dry old textbooks in elementary school? Love comics and new media teaching? Reading with Pictures, a…
The Collaborative for Multilingual Writing and Research’s second installment in celebration of National Poetry Month comes from the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda. This coming Thursday, April 26th…
Read a mystery, explore culture, and meet people from all over the world! The Collaborative for Multilingual Writing and Research does all this every Friday. On April…
Part of our work at the Writing Center includes responding to “Quick Questions” asked by writers from within and beyond the DePaul community. By posting the questions…
Two weeks ago I started a new internship with a literary agency. Writing and editing are my passions, and after working at the Writing Center for the…