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by Delaney Francis, Peer Consultant, University Writing Center You spend days, weeks, and sometimes months working on an essay. You start to form a bond with the paper and don’t want to let it go. It’s like meeting a stranger on vacation and knowing you will soon part ways because that is the way the …

by Jennifer Rojas, Peer Consultant, University Writing Center “We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing – an actor, a writer – I am a person who does things – I write, I act – and I never know what I am going to do next. I think you can be …

by Brett Green, Guest Blogger, IUPUI Undergraduate Have you ever read a paper and had difficulty finding the true meaning behind it? We are all guilty of writing a paper of that sort at some point in our writing career. Sometimes the problem is just that the author is writing how they speak, but in …

by Alexandra Makris, Peer Consultant, University Writing Center In my two-year career at the University Writing Center, I have worked with two students’ artist statements. This makes me a little sad, because I have spent three and a half years in art school so far, and I occasionally like to pride myself that I know …

by Sydney Fleck, Peer Consultant, University Writing Center The first time I came to the Writing Center felt like my first time going to Starbucks. Starbucks (now my second home mid-semester with its free coffee refills and awkward music as a background to my studying) was a place I’d heard about a lot but really …