by Lauren Bender, Art History I vividly recall my first experience receiving feedback on my writing, when I proudly showed my father my first five-paragraph essay and asked him what he thought. A lawyer by training and a perfectionist by nature, he enthusiastically marked up the essay with a red pen, returning it to me…
by Riley Thoen, Plant Biology Of all the skills I have refined in graduate school, writing is, without question, the one that has given me the most trouble. Approximately two years ago, I wrote an E-interview as a member of the editorial board for The Classic Journal. In this interview, I mention I am working…
by Annaliesse Reyes, College of Public Health Throughout the Fall 2023 semester, I have been a graduate lab assistant for an introductory biology lab course for non-STEM majors. There were a lot of firsts for me in this semester: first semester in my graduate school program, first semester as a graduate assistant, first experience with…
by Will Shine Success in higher education and life itself, as many of us came to believe, was contingent upon ‘good writing’—that is writing well (never good). When I was a freshman in college, I was required to take a writing-composition class. Now this wasn’t some sort of unique prerequisite for bad writers; unless you’d taken…