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Content and Its Discontents

Doesn’t it seem a little strange that About.com has an entire subdomain dedicated to doing your laundry, including their own designated laundry correspondent?  This kind of thing is…

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Writing about Writing

Google Glass: Social Awkwardness Advanced

A few minutes ago, a fellow writing tutor and I were discussing the recent phenomenon of Google Glass. For anyone who may not be familiar with this…

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Boosting Your Writing Center’s Social Media Presence

I’m just going to throw it out there: many organizations that use social media have no real idea what they’re doing with it, or why they’re using…

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Can trolling teach you how to write? Chris Kluwe thinks so.

Football season may be over, but it’s worth talking about something that made this season a little unusual: it seems more and more athletes are speaking their…

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Social Media: Helping or Hurting Writers?

Social media. Its everywhere we look. You and all your friends are using it on your phones and computers. Businesses cannot seem to survive without it. Its…

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Writing about Writing

Mark Twain’s Love/Hate Relationships

… with his typewriter.  Yes, it turns out the Twain-man couldn’t quite untangle his feelings about the revolutionary device.  Mr. Clemens certainly made history when he wrote Tom…

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In Praise of Online Appointments

As a new tutor with the UCWbL, my appointments so far have been either in person or via email.  In both cases, I’ve felt in control of…

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How to Write Very Little

“Talking and eloquence are not the same,” Ben Jonson once observed.  “To speak, and to speak well, are two things.”  In his new book, Microstyle, Christopher Johnson,…