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Possibly the best assignment/gift I received in my writing class was having a “working draft” due instead of a completed draft. Whether there was actually any difference to my professor, there was definitely a difference to us in class. For … Continue reading →

If you look to the title of my blog, “Sweating the Small Stuff’,” you know that the small things are most important to me. Also, if you’ve noticed “small stuff,” “small things” or some similar phrasing is located somewhere in nearly … Continue reading →

Get ready for another Donald Trump themed post, but first let’s back it up a little… In my writing class we focused a lot on understanding audience. We looked at audience of other pieces of literature, as well as audience … Continue reading →

  Dear straight people, Sorry to group you in a large mass that might not be completely representative of yourself as an individual, but a lot of you really don’t get it. There is a lot of diversity in this … Continue reading →

The feeling of finishing my freshman year is more overwhelmingly joyous than the feeling of graduating high school. Probably because the amount of time I’ve put into my work, the amount of stress I’ve had to endure, and the significance … Continue reading →

“Fake News” A quote, a headline, a new running joke. Unfortunately, there is a good amount of fake news out there. Unlike Donald Trump, however, you shouldn’t go around calling everything you disagree with “fake” and everything you support the … Continue reading →

For the final project in my writing class, we were given the task of transforming our researched argument into a “multimodal” project.  Going into this final project, I was concerned by the word “multimodal.” I didn’t even really know what … Continue reading →

Part of being a good writer is being able to translate your writing to the “language” of your perspective audience. It always makes me laugh when I think that my writing professor was at one point and elementary school teacher, … Continue reading →

Gail. This woman has the most patience I’ve ever seen in a white-haired lady. Gail works in the library and specializes in research and is pretty much a walking guide to databases. My writing class has had about 3 classes … Continue reading →

I can barely recall my sex education in during my primary education. I went to private school from K-3rd grade and then again from 9th-12th, so that luxurious gap in a public middle school is what supposedly gave me the how-to on … Continue reading →