April 24, 2019 Celebrating the Writing Center's 30th Anniversary: In Our Own Words The Writing Center is proud to announce our 30th anniversary here on Xavier’s campus!
As part of our celebration, we are pleased to welcome back our blog, Freewrite, which has been on...
April 01, 2018 Thinking Outside the Formal Outline by Liz Harris, Writing Center Tutor
We all remember first learning about-and instantly hating-formal outlines. For me, they always took so much effort to write, but never matched up with...
April 01, 2018 Finals Week from Hell: How to Handle Writing Final Essays By Isabel DeMarco, Writing Center Tutor
Finals week. Those two words often send shudders down the backs of many college students, and for no surprise. Finals week is often the most...
March 2018
March 01, 2018 Get Hooked On Writing Introductions by Morgan Doty, Writing Center Tutor
You have the prompt, and you've thought about what to write about, but how do you start? Everyone knows that papers follow a basic order-introduction, body,...
February 2018
February 01, 2018 An Original Thesis: Does That Even Exist? By Soondos Mulla-Ossman
You've just gotten back your first paper of the semester. Your professor is making a face. "I liked your paper, but..." You know what's coming. "I was hoping for...
February 01, 2018 I Want to Be a Scientist. Why Do I Have to Take Writing? by Anjali Nelson, Writing Center Tutor
A common misconception is the idea that the subjects of Science and English could not be more different. In fact, some science majors might roll...
December 2017
December 01, 2017 Writing When You Don't Want To by Matt Alexander, Writing Tutor
Life is hard; so is writing. Both are especially hard when passion is lacking. Toward the end of the semester, it's hard to be enthusiastic even when you...
November 2017
November 01, 2017 Reviewer vs. Writer: A Peer-Editing Prepper by Zenab Saeed, Writing Tutor
For many students, peer-editing day in an English class is met with polarized responses: some love it, whereas others hate it. Peer-editing, however, is an...
October 2017
October 01, 2017 Step One: Find a Step One By Ethan Shuh, Writing Tutor
As students, we are often faced with the daunting task of taking a prompt that may be as little as one sentence and producing five, ten, even twenty pages of coherent...
September 2017
September 01, 2017 Lend Me Your Peers: How to Make the Most of Peer Editing Sessions By Andrew Koch, Writing Tutor
"And be sure to bring a draft of your paper for next week's class. We're having a peer review day."
(Internal groan)
Peer editing days are like Cincinnati weather:...
April 2017
April 01, 2017 Summer Is Coming. Buy A Journal. by Andrew Eggerding, Graduate Assistant
Summer break is the perfect time to take full advantage of the free time we are not always afforded as students: the time to have some fun, gain...
April 01, 2017 Take (Writing) Risks Before It's Too Late By Tori Link, Writing Tutor
Now that it's the spring semester of my senior year, the time has finally come for me to give advice to younger students and share the pieces of venerated...
February 01, 2017 The Importance of Writing with Brevity By Sean Noble, Writing Tutor
Popular It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia character and personal role model Charlie Kelley once remarked, "Let me tell you, I side with Shakespeare on...
November 01, 2016 Tips for Writing an Awesome Research Paper By Sophia Kvochak, Writing Tutor
Writing a research paper can be intimidating. Keep these tips in mind and make research paper writing a breeze!
WHAT IS A RESEARCH PAPER?
A research...
October 2016
October 01, 2016 Rocking that Rhetorical Analysis By: Rachel R., Writing Tutor
You enter the classroom chatting with your friend, but as you take a seat and look to the board, you groan. There are three words written in a crisp, clear, cursive:...
October 01, 2016 Writing Promptly By Zenab S., Writing Tutor
Following directions can be hard. Following directions that seem extremely specific or too vague can be even harder.
Though academic writing can be intimidating at first,...
February 2016
February 01, 2016 Learning to Live the Writer's Life By Tori Link, Writing Tutor
Writing has always come naturally to me. What can I say? I'm good with words. I like rummaging through my brain, picking out the best words and connecting them in the...
February 01, 2016 Reigniting a Passion for Writing By Zenab S., Writing Tutor
Somewhere along the way, it seemed like writing started to become less exciting. Maybe it was because I didn't have ample opportunity to write poems or personal...
November 2015
November 01, 2015 Write Like a Chameleon By Taylor Roberts, Writing Tutor
Everyone possesses a unique writing style, but writing across genres requires a bit of adaptability on our part. We must decide how to best evoke a reaction from...
September 2015
September 01, 2015 We Can All Become Better Writers By Colleen O'Connell, Graduate Assistant
If you've spent in any time in the Writing Center or a tutor has visited one of your classes to talk about the Writing Center, there's a good chance you've...
May 2015
May 01, 2015 Write Like You Mean It By Mark Anliker, Writing Tutor
Since before I can remember, my grandmother has been correcting me whenever she asks me how I'm doing. "I'm doing good!" I tell her enthusiastically as she arrives at...
April 01, 2015 Revising Your Revision Process by Shannon Price, Writing Tutor
This is it. You've been staring at your computer screen for hours. You're tired, you're hungry, and you're so fed up with "insert writing topic here" that if any...
March 2015
March 01, 2015 First Impressions: The Challenge of Writing an Introduction By Tori Link, Writing Tutor
Since this is one of our first entries about writing in our new blog, I thought it would be fitting to talk about introductions. Writing a good introduction is a...
March 01, 2015 New Blog-ginnings: a Debut Post from The Glenn By Colleen O'Connell, Graduate Assistant
It feels like just last week the air was frigid and the ground was powdery white...Oh, right. That's because it was cold and snowing last week. Spring...
