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Archive for January, 2011

ART!

Although I’m not a coffee drinker, I l - o - v - e coffee shops!  The misty aroma of coffee hanging in the air (so much better than the actual taste), newspapers flung about, a chance to eavesdrop on some really fascinating conversations (oh come on, you do it too).   Ah, but what I [...]

Starting a slow-writing movement

As we launched a new semester in our writing center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison this past week, I loved listening to the lively buzz in our center emanating from conversations about writing projects.  And as I eavesdropped, I was reminded of how much I value slow, detailed, substantial conversations about writing in progress.
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Writing Style Matters: An Engineering Student’s Perspective

By Debjit Roy. What does the UW-Madison Writing Center have to offer a doctoral student in engineering?  Actually, quite a bit!