Choose Your Own BBG Chapter
I chose to read chapter 2 Narrative Genres of BBG in hopes that it will help me understand the small details of writing a narrative as I...
Integrating and Documenting Sources
Chapter 7 of BBG is all about sources and how to use them in writing in ways that most effectively get the meaning across while also...
Mentor Text
“Consider the Lobster” is the example piece for project 2 and I understand why. This article speaks of a personal experience that the...
Genres, Genres, Genres
I actually… enjoyed reading this chapter of The Bedford Book of Genres. Learning more about different kinds of genres and how they are...
Exploring Topics & Creating a Research Proposal
My biggest struggle with writing has always been the first few lines. I have even rewritten the beginning of this blog more times than I...
The Power of Nostalgia
In Roxane Gay's piece I Once Was Miss America she introduces this idea that nostalgia can reshape our memories of a time and make it seem...
Shitty First Drafts vs Standardized Writing Tests
Anne Lamott’s “Shitty First Drafts” put into words the exact reason why I have always hated writing examinations given in high school. As...