With summer quickly approaching, we here at the UCWbL would love to share with you some of our top recommendations for good summer reading. Over the next…
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.
This year, I joined the UCWbL team at DePaul’s 16th Annual Teaching and Learning Conference to present my e-portfolio with my fellow Digicators. Faculty drawn to the…
This Friday, May 13th, the UCWbL’s Collaborative for Multilingual Writing and Research will be hosting a workshop on how social media can help improve language learning skills. If…
Software that allows you to annotate, save and share websites with others not only makes web research more manageable but allows for greater opportunities for collaboration. Sites…
The first episode of the second season of Hot Topics in Writing,the UCWbL’s podcast, is finally available below for your streaming-audio pleasure! In this thirty minute show,…
Last week I finally got my Chicago Public Library (CPL) card at the Sulzer Regional Library in Ravenswood. If you live in Chicago or if you are…
With midterms looming and the end of the quarter in sight I thought I would share some advice and encouragement with the lovely and possibly avid readers…
Julie Bosman’s recent NY Times article, “Aspiring Authors Get Help Online” announces Penguin Group’s newest endeavor: Book Country, a website that allows writers to post their fiction…
The approach of spring quarter midterms means tests, stress, but also e-portfolios! Whether you’re thinking of your WRD portfolios or job hunting come June graduation, it might…
Last Thursday, April 14th, was Poem in Your Pocket Day, and we at the UCWbL got into the act. Poem in Your Pocket Day has been a…