Category: Writing
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Someday, what we did will matter.
Someday, what we did will matter. During one of Fairfield University’s Senior Week events, I was asked to write a six-word story to summarize my experience at Fairfield University. So I harnessed my budding poetic powers, which I acquired after taking a class with Professor Carol Ann Davis, and this was the result. I wonder what Hemingway would think of…
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Blog 11: Usability Testing
It’s crunch time! I’m revamping my portfolio site for my Multimedia Writing Course. Here’s the first draft, which was done in the beginning of the semester: writerloanle.comoj.com Here’s what it looks like now: writerloanle.comli.com Today, I asked my classmates to test out my website. They’ve given me some great feedback, but here’s basically what they’ve said. How…
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Watch Shane Koyczan’s “To This Day”
A year ago I heard Shane Koyczan’s “To This Day” poem about bullying, and it blew my mind. I didn’t realize until today that the poem was adapted into a video, which I just saw on Upworthy. Shane’s heartfelt spoken word poem shines light on bullying’s long-term effects. Unfortunately everyone has encountered or has seen…
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Learning to be a poet
We learned how to write tanka poetry a few weeks back. A tanka poem is a traditional Japanese form of poetry. It follows a 5-7-5-7-7 syllabic pattern and can go on for a long time. We only stop once we reach infinity – that is, until we feel like we can’t get anything else out of…
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The power to overcome
His pain level was nine out of 10. Confined to his hospital bed, sweating and aching all over, he could hear his skin crackling, the result of gas gangrene inside his legs, caused by bacteria eating away at his muscle tissues. Seventeen-year-old John Tartaglio was dying. His diagnoses couldn’t keep up with his rapid decline.…
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i hate bullies.
I’ve talked a little about bullying in past posts. It sounds odd, right, for a college student to still think about bullying. You would think in adulthood you wouldn’t see any bullying – except that’s wrong. Bullying – verbal or physical – occurs all the time no matter the age of the victim or the…
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Blog Post 8: Proposal for Literacy Narrative
English was not my first language, even though I was born in the United States.
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When I first started interning at Simon & Schuster, I was a bright-eyed girl roaming around in the city. My previous trips had been with family and friends; I never got a chance to be alone. I explored New York at night, sat in the Washington Square on the weekends – listening to pianists, drummers,…
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