Posts from ‘May, 2009’

I’m so sorry but I have to cancel today’s reading.  I’m leaving school early due to a medical emergency in my family.  Hopefully it will turn out to be nothing serious, but I have to go.
I will make a time that I’ll be on campus as soon as I can to return your portfolios to [...]

Most of the techniques we learned are very helpful, but this one just doesn’t intrigue me, both as a reader and writer. I want to figure out if this is simply a matter of personal preference, or if Im not thinking about it correctly.
This opposition came to me last class when we were discussing Rose’s essay on the passing of her grandmother. Almost [...]

If there’s one subject that I never had an interest for its Philosophy. Baruch requires us to take it so I finally got around to it this winter intersession. You know what? Surprisingly, I really enjoyed it. The class I took was Logic, and one of the things that I’ve learned is how manipulative language [...]

“Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.” – I always wonder how people come up with such quotes- I love this quote I think it’s so true. I’ve tried several times to start off papers using this quote just because I like it so much but it never really meshed in well.

I’m trying to write my personal statement for law school and i’m having so much trouble- I feel as if I’m selling myself..I realized that in many writing we are required to “sell” ourselves. For example in resumes under objectives..does anyone actually write just to make money? Anyone have any tips on being able to [...]

I was reading a number of articles about “Jihadism” for my Middle Eastern politics class last week and came across something interesting in the propaganda used for recruitment and support by terrorist organizations. I found some great examples of how Al-Qaeda uses audience targeting, symbolism and imagery to not only effectively communicate their message but [...]

I’ve been thinking a lot about writing lately and the different styles that writers use, and how some of them make their writing so easy and smooth for us, and what I realized is that in order to make a good writing we need to have a lot of vocabulary; some words appear a lot [...]

When I re-read my last meditation I realized that I had taken my mediation in a completely different direction than I had wanted to.  I got caught up in the story aspect of what I was writing about and feel as though I handed in just that; a story.  I want to revise my work [...]

become-a-better-writer
A fellow writing teacher tipped me off to this.
I love it for its utter simplicity.  Just follow these ten easy (ha) steps.  Forget everything I’ve been saying about style tools for your style tool chest, rhythm, defamiliarization, tone, key terms, semi colons and dashes, the authentic voice, vividness, imagery, show don’t tell, think of your [...]

This is a little belated, but I was thinking back on our afternoon with the Alexander String Quartet and the discussion we had in class about our experience. I kept coming back to the strange parrallels between music and writing. Rhythm is always the first commonality that comes to mind, but as I listened and [...]