Sometimes I cannot bring myself to write. Sometimes I cannot bring myself to write at all. I sit at the chair with an empty mind and shake…
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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.
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Prioritizing the Global
As I consider my development as a tutor and writer over my three years working as at the UCWbL, I can see how much I have come…
Look anywhere online and you can find articles bemoaning the difficulties COVID-19 has wrought on people’s ability to maintain a social life. Despite the constraints that social…
I recently had an Online Realtime appointment with a writer who was looking to add sources to her research paper on creating a diverse workplace. We scoured…
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Choosing a Citation Style
Picture this: you receive the assignment guidelines and rubric for an upcoming written assignment. Your professor requires in-text citations and a Works Cited or References page at…
During quarantine, a lot of people have gotten back into reading for fun, and I’m definitely one of them. I hadn’t read a book that wasn’t for…
Verb tenses are one of those grammar concepts that tend to be difficult for native speakers to identify and speak on in a metalinguistic way. As a…
As a tutor, my self-perceptions on my grammatical strengths have been pretty confident from the start—I’ve been able to explain surface-level concepts regarding sentence structure, parts of…
What is a comma? When should it be used? A comma (,) is a punctuation mark used to indicate separation within a sentence. They help to group…
A noun is usually described as a person, place, or thing, which seems simple enough until you really unpack all the different types of nouns: concrete and…