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Learn Something New Right Now and It Won’t Cost A Cent

Another day, another free source of information on the Internet!  This one’s particularly cool, though; now art students and enthusiasts of all stripes can access the Guggenheim…

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Stay in & Chat with a Tutor!

With all this precipitation, trudging through the snow to the Writing Center might seem a little daunting. Luckily, the Writing Center is only a click away! The…

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Welcome Back!

It’s a new term and we’re excited for Winter 2012 here at the UCWbL, so remember – it’s never too early in the year to get some…

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It’s Procrastination Time Again!

What’s this, another post about procrastination during finals season?  A total surprise, I know.  But, dear UCWbLers, I have something to confess:  I had a really hard…

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Things to do with those textbooks you can’t sell back

Did you spill coffee on the pages of Wuthering Heights? Did the campus book store clerk reject your pristine copy of Intro. to Biology, claiming that a new and…

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What is YOUR favorite Chicago used bookstore?

With the closing of Borders, it’s starting to seem like there are more used bookstores in Chicago than first-hand bookstores. Certainly used bookstores ARE “green” — keeping…

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Finals Inspiration from Jack Kerouac

Beyond the typographical errors (or stylistic choices? Hey, he’s following his own tip number 13.) of Jack Kerouac’s “Belief and Technique for Modern Prose” lie gems of…

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Top 5 Ways to Jazz Up your Digication e-Portfolio

So, most of my posts here on UCWbLing have been committed to DePaul’s fave portfolio tool: Digication. But, with finals week just around the corner (breathe), I…

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National Day on Writing 2011

On October 20th, the University Center for Writing-based Learning celebrated the National Day on Writing on both the Lincoln Park and Loop campuses.  The event was a…

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Exploring English and Having a Good Old Time Doing It

On Friday October 7, the Collaborative for Multilingual Writing and Research (CMWR) hosted our first Conversation Group, an initiative designed to address the needs of DePaul and…