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Reflections About My Own Blog
I think that my blog served two purposes. It gave me a place to say things as well as share my work. I have read my classmates blogs and some of them comment on how they hope no one finds their blogs.(Brandon) I think that if you write it down and [...]

Upon examining my classmates’ blogs I found that each one had a different style. Some of the blogs, like Ashley M.’s title and tagline, “Writing Process: Putting some Elbow grease into my writing…ha” had personal touches that reflected a little personality into them. And Ashley needs to make hers different because she, Margaret, Kerri and [...]

What is a writer and how can we bring voice into a classroom?
The definition of a writer is complex. We can define a “writer” as someone who makes a living at writing, but then one could argue that any job requires writing in some aspect. Well then, a “writer” is someone who is published. Okay, [...]

Miller views the self as a photo of the that person on paper, in the form of text. All the outside factors are effecting the person in the picture. If the environment is hot, the person is sweating, if the environment is cold, they are shiverring. Change of clothes, change of attitude, change in environment, [...]

I think that imitation is a nice way to learn about great writing, but, like Corbet, I think that if a student spends too much time studying and copying a certain author then the students may not develop their own voice, but a voice that sounds like the author channeled through them. They become a [...]