According to N.P.R., Wikipedia’s Public Policy Initiative has recruited professors from eight different universities (including Harvard and U.C. Berkeley) to incorporate Wikipedia into their courses on public…
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.
Do you know about Zotero?
As November rolls onward, DePaul University’s finals week approaches. Those research paper due dates that were once safely tucked away on a calendar page far far away…
Get Out and Vote
Election Day is here! Because the UCWbL values democratic processes, I’m posting some online resources that the undecided voter may find useful before heading out to the…
Academic Writing Resources
Harvard University’s Writing Center has some useful resources for writers working on academic papers. Their “Brief Guides to Writing Papers in the Disciplines” covers the fields of…
Common Folk
During class the other night (English 431, Invention of the Novel), Professor John Shanahan pointed out a great online resource for writers who are interested in conducting original, historiographic research.…
Tutors from UCWbL are staffing a “Digication Lab” Tuesdays and Thursdays, 4:20 pm to 6:00 pm, in McGaw Hall (room 202) this autumn quarter. Drop in if…
Rap Metrics. Wow.
I just discovered a fellow WordPress blog called RapMETRICS. It’s an amazing site. The site’s sole credited writer, rapmetrics, who I’m fairly sure is Liban Ali Yusuf,…
Molly Tranberg (MAWP ’11) has done a fabulous job transitioning DePaul’s Graduate English newsletter into a new blog. Of course there’s information regarding DePaul’s M.A. programs in…
Generally I put music on when I write. I avoid music with lyrics almost always. I generally start with 1950s and 1960s jazz like Bill Evans or…
Open Writing Center appointments are as scarce as golden tickets lately. As due dates approach and new assignments hit the table, WConline is accumulating more hits of…