Adobe Creative Suite

It all started from my high school, which was international school in China. I had to write many essays. My drive to have a better and creative writing skill was fully because of my first teacher in the high school. “What should I improve?” I had to ask this for many times after I get my essay back. She had a certain criteria that she expected to find in student’s essays. “Well Kyu…” She…

Experiences as an SVSU English major My freshman year at SVSU began in a way that I could only explain as equal parts terrifying and exhilarating. There I was, three hours away from home, surrounded by (and living with) seven complete strangers who I somehow felt like I had nothing in common with. I came in with pretty much no idea what I was doing, who I wanted to be, or what the next four years would be like, and a tentatively declared English major. I didn’t know where I was headed, I…

My Literacy Adventure When I came into this class I had no idea what to expect. Was it going to be an easy class I would not have to worry about? Or would it test my writing abilities to a whole other level? I soon found out that I not prepared for what was to come. For the first time I felt as though I was on my own when it came to writing. In high school I did not take any advanced English or writing classes and I had the same English teacher for three years. My teacher was very straight…

Writing is not only a profession but it’s a vocation. You need passion to become an effective writer. You need to love what you do and do what you love. Because when you 're passionate, amazing things can happen. Just like the ones detailed below. There’s enough time. Have a long list of things to do every day? No problem at all. Does the clock seem to run so fast but you feel so unproductive yet? Nope, doesn’t happen when you 're in the writer’s zone. When you love to write, you can accomplish…

Bird by Bird, well that sounds like word by word, and that’s exactly what this book is about. Anne Lamott is trying to teach future writers, including those just taking an English course, that writing is a process that we can only take word by word. Bird by Bird – Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott was published on September 28, 1994 and was intended for those taking a writing course or those trying to become future writers. Anne Lamott tries to connect to the reader, on a…

Purpose Economy vs. Creative Economy Aaron Hurst describes the fourth economic stage as the purpose economy (following the knowledge economy). As humans, we have a fear of not mattering. Because of this, Hurst predicts our next economic era will be centered around our individual quest for purpose. Each of the previous economies have made mankind ‘faster, stronger, smarter,’ but now mankind is turning back to a more ‘human’ way of doing things. Purpose is a choice, according to Hurst, which…

The field of music education requires many skills outside of teaching techniques and understanding of fundamentals of music. As a music educator, it is imperative that I am able to communicate professionally with my school faculty, parents and other professionals that will play a role in the learning process for my students. Professional communication through writing is a skill that I must continue to work on so that I may be adequately prepared to facilitate the learning process for my future…

This is a movie about writing and all the implications surrounding that world. It may seem easier just to conceive an idea and place it on a piece of paper, but there are different situations affecting a writer. This movie is one of those stories that explains some situations about writing a book. On the day his third wife leaves him and his literary agent arrives to pressure him to finish a novel seven years in the writing, Carnegie Mellon professor, Grady Tripp, also learns that his married…

My first interaction with the play Julius Caesar was part of my curriculum and entirely changed my stand on Shakespearean literature, while The Hunger Games is one of my favourite books. This is, what persuaded me, to find a common ground between the two books. The research question I have chosen has implications which gives us an interesting outlook on how literature and language to portray human psychology. The question is worth considering for it is living proof that human psychology has…

The skill of multitasking is looked upon as a desirable trait to have, when in reality people really can't multitask effectively. Writer and literary critic William Deresiewicz presents to his freshman class at West Point that multitasking and the use of others ideas is ineffective for leaders and in fact concentration alone is what leads to a successful leadership. Deresiewicz poses rhetorical questions in order to encourage the students to open their eyes to new ideas, a combination of ethos…