Respond, in your own words, and referencing your own experiences, to the validity of Gay’s question: “What if joy and pain are fundamentally tangled up with one another?” I think that pain and…

Zadie Smith is an English novelist and essay writer. She has written about race religion and other hard topics. She is known for work like this and is a veteran in the writing…

Document their work using appropriate conventions (MLA) & control sentence-level error (grammar, punctuation, spelling) My MLA formatting has gotten better, especially my signal phrases. In my first paper they were basically non-existent. My…

Be able to critique their own and others’ work by emphasizing global revision early in the writing process and local revision later in the process. My peer review was the most improved thing…

Employ techniques of active reading, critical reading, and informal reading response for inquiry, learning, and thinking. Annotating has never been something I took seriously even in high school, I would just read and…

Be able to integrate their ideas with others using summary, paraphrase, quotation, analysis, and synthesis of relevant sources. Integrating sources has always been a problem for me because when I write I tend…

 Demonstrate the ability to approach writing as a recursive process that requires substantial revision of drafts for content, organization, and clarity, as well as editing and proofreading. I always hated doing rough drafts…