Writing Practices Minor
Psychedelics Aren't Just For Parties (and other ways the media lied)
Writing Capstone • Spring 2023
In my revision, I chose to rewrite my final paper from my class on psychedelic medicine. The original essay was dense and used psychology-specialized language, but I decided to rewrite it as a podcast to make the information available for a more mainstream audience. In doing so I completely changed the style and expanded on some of the points which were not prior knowledge outside of the psychology field.
Theories of the Lyric Final Portfolio
Applied Writing • Winter 2023
The piece I chose to include was my final portfolio for the class: a collection of three poems we wrote over the quarter and a final argumentative essay. For the argumentative essay I sought to answer the question, how do Walter Benjamin and Percy Shelley differently view the creation of poetry, and in what ways was Benjamin wrong about the effect modernity has had on poetry’s creation? My poems sought to play with language in conjunction with theory we read over the quarter. “This City” will be published in Foothills Magazine this summer.
Margins: A Literacy Narrative
Theory, History, & Research • Spring 2022
This literacy narrative asked me to reflect on one of my written or spoken identities and how that influences the way I view the world. I chose to reflect on my handwriting literacy and how that has come into conflict with academic systems, as well as how it has played a role in my writer’s block. While reflecting on the process of handwriting, I was able to see more clearly how my literacies inform my different writing styles—as well as how those voices differentiate as a whole.
Research and Expression Papers
Theories of Writing • Fall 2021
The first assignment I am displaying from this course is my research paper, which asked students to formulate their own theory of writing and develop it with the theories we had learned from class. I chose to focus on why a literacy in Shakespearean works is difficult to acquire for high school students, even though Shakespearean English is still considered modern.
The second assignment I am displaying is my Theories of Writing Expression paper, which works in tandem with the research paper. Essentially, I am taking the theory of writing which I developed and applying it creatively. For this reason, I chose to “translate” a modern song into Shakespearean English to demonstrate the fundamental structural and dialectic differences between the two—as such, my writing is a soliloquy written in iambic pentameter.