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Our Editorial Team and Reviewers. In preparation for a new school year, here are our staff blog picks from last year. Read on for four easy-to-use teaching tips for the writing classroom.

Tuesday, May 4, 2010. Come join us in The Writing Center this week for Peer Tutor Appreciation Days. Monday, May 3, 2010. Turquoise looks like the ocean waves. Turquoise smells like salt water. Turquoise tastes like salt waves in my mouth. Turquoise sounds like crashing waves on my head. Bricks feel like rough hands on my face. Bricks sound like balls clinking together. Bricks look like burning skin.

Learn More Online - Writing Clinic. Improve your writing skills in our online clinic. Sunday, July 1, 2007. Sit down in a quiet place and start listing potential people you could describe. Once you have listed the people you know who would be interesting subjects, try to narrow it down to one. Now turn over your paper and begin listing characteristics of this person.

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