Creative destruction

I ended up choosing “Happy Endings” for my essay because its odd layout had challenged me. It made me want to decode it and find out what was really being told through the words. This story by Margaret Atwood is like nothing else I have read before. Atwood herself even refers to it as a “mutation” of sorts, saying it’s a mixture of multiple different genres of literature. She even took joy in writing in this new way, acting as if she liked to puzzle her readers. Atwood even goes to say, “Writing

Since elementary school I have exhibited a talent for writing. What started out as mere ten page stories about cats hunting mice or Greek Gods turning people into blob fish expanded into publishing a four hundred page long summer camp murder mystery as an eBook with my friend Henry in eighth grade. Over the years I have become more passionate about my writing, and over the years my grammar and writing style have grown tremendously. Looking back at the book I helped write in eighth grade I can’t help

Over the last three decades, there has been a major change in the way that writing is taught and assessed in schools. This shift has mainly been motivated by insights derived from grassroots teacher movements and research. Today, there are numerous trends in writing research, writing instruction and writing assessment as a learning activity. Early trends in writing were characterized by conflicting views about the impacts of writing on learning. Students were mainly instructed on how to write essays

I’m the type of person who overthinks everything and I mean everything. I stress over every little detail whether it matters or not and I burden my brain with all the minutia of life. This kind of overthinking over long periods of time can become tedious and overwhelming. I’ve often heard that journaling or stream of conscious writing can be a healthy way of unleashing the mind and quieting the monkey chatter that can overpower the brain and leave us without focus and clarity. Even knowing this,

From start to finish I could say I’ve had a pretty big year for myself. In the summer of 2016 I couldn’t have told you the difference between a counterclaim and a body paragraph, however now I could explain everything in detail, start to finish, like it’s the back of my hand. Throughout my year in enriched english I have immensely made a huge change in how I write and the style I go about it, and I couldn’t be happier. With the help of a wonderful teacher, I was successfully able to watch myself

This semester I have learned many lessons such as the six traits of writing. I have copied this traits from the book Mr. Whitaker has provided us. These six important traits are ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, and conventions. Let me take a minute to explain into further detail what each of these are. Ideas help strong writings include a clear idea, message, or theme. Organization helps the reader present their writing in the correct order. Voice is what gives your

practicing creative writing in high school, paired with the development of an extremely introverted personality, I face many challenges in creative

When beginning to write an essay everyone has their own method of doing so. Some may like to brainstorm while others may prefer to go straight into writing about their topic. I personally beginning every essay by collecting ideas about my topic before coordinating them into a type of diagram, next I proceed to do my rough draft before revising over the paper and finally composing my final draft. The point of the writing process is to help break everything down so ideas can be organized and everything

Hello, I am Madison Conley. I am currently a sophomore majoring in English with an emphasis in editing. I was born and raised in Wichita Kansas, but currently reside in Granbury Texas. As of right now, I work in the Bookstore, and am also co-president of SAB. Since attending this school I have heard about opportunities in the writing center and I think that this position would help me gain experience in my projected field area. I also feel that this position would assist me in furthering my knowledge

This term was very fruitful and educational; not only were we given the chance to tackle about certain issues, but we also got to read some articles and essays written by other people to serve as inspiration to write our own. This term, I also realized how essential it is to have people around you throughout the duration of your writing period. I realized how much people can manipulate the way you write in a positive way. My favorite activities of the term were the moments wherein we were given