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Pull up a chair, get comfortable, you are among friends. Enjoy sipping on a cappuccino as you settle back to read the writings on these pages. They are the work of our peer tutors, which were not written to stand alone, but together to form a community of writing. These are our pages. Come in, come join the written conversation.
UNIV 320 Blog
"The Ecological Imperative" Earth Day
by Caroline Carter, Irina Dymarsky, Jacob Gregg & Kate Walker
Excerpt:
"A tutee's way of writing is like nature in the sense that you shouldn't stray away from it; you should foster it and help it grow. " Click here to read the entire essay.
Writing About the World
by Michael Richardson
Excerpt:
"A thousand stories lie there. Each one is vast, emotional and human. And all, no matter what differences there were, culminated in a visit to that picnic table to leave something there in that timeless place. These new stories were left along with the old stones, broken concrete and soot engraved in the memory of the mountain." Click here to read the entire essay.
Writing from the Center
by Tim Stevenson
Excerpt:
"Evaluating a writing sample is almost like examining someone's hands, if you look close enough you can often determine what the writer has been through and even what he or she was feeling at the time of composition." Click here to read the entire essay.
Snickering from the Center
by Greg Benevent
Excerpt:
"We're here." and the elevator rattles to a half on the middle, center floor. "This is your stop." I say, as the door opens on what looks like pitch-black. "I'll be back later, to clear things up, but..." my face changes "watch yourself. This place can get a little rough." I laugh at my own little Star Wars joke, and push you, trembling, out of the elevator in the dark. Click here to read the entire essay.
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