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The
Missing Link
By
Darren Crovitz
All readers (and writers) are interested to some degree in the nuts and bolts of language. Sure, when we read, there are larger things we're looking for-a controlled focus, cohesive organization, an engaging style. But for each of us, there are certain issues of diction, syntax, grammar, punctuation, and usage that snag our attention, like thorns snatching and unraveling a sweater.
One of those
pet peeves for me is hyphens. Or rather, the lack of them.
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What
Every Student Should Know About the UWC
By Lloyd Savage
It's Friday afternoon and my Comp professor has just given me the assignment for my Core I; it's due Monday. Great! I have two and a half days to write this thing. I slide the assignment sheet in my folder and lose myself in delusions of entertaining the professor with the genius of my creativity. Somewhere around Sunday afternoon I stumble upon that faint notion that I was supposed to have a paper written. In a panic, I pump out what I can-it takes me a few hours but I am relieved that it is done. I even have a chance to look at it a second time before it is due. I am confronted by the nagging reality that I am unclear in my writing and my ideas are all over the place. But I assure myself that my professor will understand me and I drop any pretense of revising what I think is already a great piece of literature.
By Georgianna O. Miller
Before I began working at the University Writing Center, I never really thought about revision. All of my teachers stressed it, of course, but it always seemed to me that they did so by rote rather than having a real passion for that part of the writing process. "Revision is the most important part of writing," they would say. Or, "I revise my own papers many times." That sort of blanket statement held little practical value for me as an intro student, especially when my own revision strategy included merely correcting typos or altering anything that Microsoft Word had underlined in that annoying green squiggle. In addition, during my first two years in college most of my experience was in writing academic papers. If I could get an 'A' without revising, why bother? Coincidentally, I began to take upper-level creative writing courses at the same time that I started working at the University Writing Center (UWC) as a Consultant. Suddenly, revision was everywhere.
