Before working at DePaul’s Writing Center, I was in a religious studies graduate program—although I completed a humanities-focused degree, other students in my department were pursuing their…
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.
Every winter and spring quarter in what I’ve dubbed “internship application season,” I’ve found myself writing and rewriting my resume and thinking about how to best talk…
In high school, I found myself wading through competition that I felt was mostly needless (at least for my mentality as a 17-year-old in the middle of…
As I embarked on my journey to write my Honors Senior Thesis, I believed that I had harnessed the experiences necessary to write without a problem. Since…
For our peer writing tutor class, Writing, Rhetoric, and Discourse 395, Valerie M. and I focused on the transferable skills that are learned through Writing Center work.…
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I’m sure we’ve all been there before – you’re in class, you’ve just completed a lecture, and you’re feeling very confused about what it is you just…
I was introduced to adrienne maree brown’s book Emergent Strategy in one of my dramaturgy classes, though the book never says anything about theatre. The book– which…
There’s always work to be done in the UCWbL in regards to linguistic justice. Gatekeeping remains overt and pervasive within academic and rhetorical spaces even as we…
If you think that all of the skills we’ve learned while tutoring at the Writing Center will be useless after we graduate, think again. In my early…
One of our mottos at the UCWbL is to meet writers where they are. This can mean where writers are in the writing process, the writing experience…