IUP Writing Center

The National Day on Writing Writing Tips Tree is sprouting some wonderful writing tips! Stop by Eicher Hall 218 to read them and add your own tip! #IUPWrites #WhyIWrite

#MotivationalMonday brings us a quote from #CSLewis. “Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward towards success.” #success #iup #writingcenter #motivationalquotes #writing

#MotivationalMonday here with some food for thought! What do you wish you could #learn and why? The #IUPWritingCenter is here to help as you figure it out!

Writing isn't just a labor of love! To improve your writing skills -- and your employment prospects -- visit your campus writing center, public library, or community center.

#AppreciationPost! Pictured on the right is our amazing secretary: Melissa! The #WritingCenter would be chaos without her. Melissa prefers spicy foods, the color teal, and the magical powers of her two black cats outside of work. Thank you for everything you do! #iup

What's moving your #writing on #MotivationalMonday? “Let the world burn through you. Throw the prism light, white hot, on paper.” -Ray Bradbury #WritingCommunity #writingcenter #RayBradbury

It's a rainy #FunFactFriday but did you know that supercalifragilisticexpialidocious can be found in the dictionary? There's some argument about the word's origins but it was made popular by the movie, Mary Poppins! #writingcenter #movietrivia #WordOfTheDay

The answer from #TriviaTuesday is Jack Kerouac! The quote appears in "Jack Kerouac: Selected Letters 1940-1956." #Kerouac is often misquoted as writing, "Be in love with your life, every minute of it." This is why it's important to check your sources! #writing #writingcenter

It's #FunFactFriday! Did you know that there are approximately 2 billion pencils manufactured in the United States every year? #writing #pencils #FunFact

For Thoughtful Thursday, we're turning to our friends from @uwwritingcenter Check out their student self-editing guide to learn more about common writing errors! #writingcommunity #writingcenter #iup #UWMadison

It's Motivational Monday! How does writing move you?? "The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe." -Gustave Flaubert

Happy Fun Fact Friday! The word muggle from the Harry Potter series has moved beyond Rowling's original definition of a non-magical person and is now included in dictionaries with the definition of "a person who lacks a particular skill".

Happy Fun Fact Friday! Naeeman is a word used in Lebanon and Syria that has no direct translation in any other language. It is said to people after they have taken a shower or gotten a haircut and is derived from naeem or ni'mah.

Happy Fun Fact Friday! Pokemon is a contraction of the romanized Japanese brand Pocket Monsters (Poketto Monsuta). Most Japanese nouns are modified for number by preceding counter words, so Pokemon is both the singular and plural form (They have 151 Pokemon. I have 1 Pokemon.)

Happy Fun Fact Friday! The word 'alphabet' comes from the Latin word 'alphabetum', which was based off of the names of the first two letters in the Greek alphabet: alpha and beta.

It's finals week! Good luck to all IUP students who are studying for tests and completing final assignments.

Donut fret over finals! Come to the writing center this morning for a delicious pick-me-up and a session with one of our amazing tutors!

Happy Fun Fact Friday! A pangram is a sentence that contains every letter of the alphabet. One of the most famous pangrams in the English language is "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog".