Banned Books Week is an annual time to recognize and contemplate the “objectionable” literature in America: texts that sects of society have deemed morally, religiously, sexually, racially,…
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.
I led my first official handful of face-to-face appointments this past week and was surprised at how many of my peers were concerned with grammar usage in…
How important is knowledge of popular culture to the contemporary writer? Is popular culture knowledge something we should actively pursue, or something we accumulate without effort as…
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After receiving Monday’s email from the Outreach Team, I hope all UCWbLers are just as excited as we are for the upcoming third annual National Day on…
As a tutor part-way into my third year at the UCWbL, I have given written feedback on many documents: about 45 of them, according to a quick…
Greetings all! As some of you may know, the National Day on Writing is rapidly approaching. We’ve got a lot of great things planned. Who’s sponsoring this…
Reading a work in translation always means that I have to undergo some internal adjustments. There’s a sense that I’m coming at the story from the far…
The Chicago Public Library (CPL) has offered e-books in the EPUB format for a while now, but Kindle owners haven’t been able to borrow digitally until very…
Need some guidance on how to approach your Digication e-portfolio? Maybe you’re not sure which module is best for your needs. Or perhaps you are wondering about…
I suspect all of us could say that there are classes we expected to be life-changing, others we thought of as, well, just classes. But life does…