by Christopher Pfeifer I was a little intimidated when selected to be a WIP TA. I thought, “I’m not a fast reader, and writing is not always easy for me like it seems for some others, so how am I supposed to help university students improve their writing?” As I write this, however, I realize…
by Tracy Barnett “How does a Writer put a Drug Trip into Words?,” asked a New York Times editorial in December 2018. The author, Michael Pollan, had a problem. A very real problem. He had decided to write a book about psychedelics. This entailed writing, putting into words, an experience described by addicts and aficionados,…
by Nara Kim Writing is like paint on a blank canvas. The artist goes through various stages in order to paint a single piece of artwork. A painting that is satisfactory will not just materialize from the beginning. As an initial step, artists should think about the topic they want to draw. The idea of…
by Alyssa Brown, Sociology, ’18–19 Sometimes I read students’ papers, and I imagine how I would write it to make it sound “better” or how I would organize it to make it flow in the way I think would make sense. I think about the way that I would write their paper if it were…