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What’s your Type?

On Friday, October 3, 2014, an UCWbL leadership meeting merged with a freshmen EDGE  student meeting, which was led by Sarah Carbone, Assistant Director of Student Employment…

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Shadow, What shadow?: A Writer’s Journey to Becoming an UCWbLer

  After discovering at the All-Staff Orientation that I would have to participate in “collaborative observations” I thought “great, I get to watch a returner perform an…

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Portrait of the Tutor as an Artist

As tutors we come into contact with dozens of essays, projects and presentations every week, through our writers. As we comment on and nudge along in our…

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Conferences and the Writing Process

Recently, I finally pushed past my fear of making purchases greater than a month’s rent and registered for this year’s Association of American Geographers (AAG) conference in…

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The 99%

Undoubtedly you have heard of the “Occupy” protests that are gathering around the world. While I haven’t been down to the Chicago chapter as of yet (as…

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New Media Writing about Writing

Let’s Demystify the Writer

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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Writing about Writing

Workshopping Outside of School

Can you count on one hand the number of people outside of school who have read your work? This is a shame.  You may be thinking, “talk…

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Shared Talk

Are you studying a foreign language? Have you always wanted to become pen-pals with someone else who speaks the language, but don’t know very many people? And/or…

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DePaul Summer Writing Conference

Hey there, lovers of writing. Summer is underway (despite what the ambiguous weather may suggest), which also means that DePaul’s Summer Writing Conference is going to be…

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Peer Writing Tutoring Research Writing about Writing

Tools for annotating and sharing on the web

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…