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…
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 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…
Want to get the creative juices flowing, but not interested in writing the Great American Novel or being the next e.e. cummings? Why not a try a…
Join the UCWbL in celebrating Banned Books Week! On Monday, September 26, from 10 am to 1 pm we’ll be reading from a selection of frequently banned,…
Attention, UCWbLers! Research Team here! Have you ever wanted to know how students feel about your work as tutors? Have you ever wondered how many tutorials the…
As we approach The National Day of Writing on October 20, it seems timely to look back on the experiences that brought us to cultivate our skills…
Some have appropriated unto the process of writing a somewhat romantic picture. We imagine our favorite writers hunched over desks, grumbling to themselves through sips of whiskey…
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What Was YOUR First Book?
The books we read as children can have profound influence over us for the rest of our lives. Your first book can be like your first love…
Over the DePaul summer term, the CMWR held a weekly Book Club in collaboration with the English Language Academy, and our selection was the teen-fiction thriller The…
Here at the UCWbL, many of us believe in the value of “shitty first drafts,” an idea popularized by the writer Anne Lamott. When beginning a piece,…