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FWC Blog: Notes from a Writer's Desk

The Fellowships & Writing Center (FWC) helps students heighten the impact of their research by refining their written and oral communication skills. Explore insightful tips and strategies on the FWC blog!

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Creative Writing Tools for Academics

The author of your favorite page-turner knew exactly how to make you keep reading: they posed a question and raised the stakes for finding the answer. Present your research questions similarly.

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Clear as a Bell: Clarity and Metaphor

Recently I have been thinking about one common rhetorical device, metaphor, and how it can either bring language to life with sizzling clarity or bury it in the mud of opacity.

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Planning Your Term

Ultimately, the goal of the planning process is to get clarity on what matters to you and to build in supports and strategies that will allow you to make steady progress over the course of the year.

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Meet the Writing Specialists!

All recent PhDs, our writing specialists bring a range of research and professional experiences to the FWC, and they are eager to share their expertise with students.

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All Walks Lead to Writing

Going for a walk is not merely an idle activity. Or if it is, then it is that very idleness that grants it power.

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Writing Center Wisdom

This, I believe, is the power of the writing center. It brings writers together to share ideas, to give support, and to find solidarity in the work of scholarly inquiry.

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For the Love of Reading: the FWC’s Summer Reading List

In celebration of reading, the staff and postdocs at the Fellowships & Writing Center have prepared our own recommendations for summer reading, comprising books we already know we love and books we are excited to open for the first time.

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