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After looking over the many chapters of  They say/I say I came across the introduction. It is all about the basic templates2 of including what “they” say into what “I” say. This chapter is about making a weak writer stronger, teaching them the basics of writing a paper that allows them to incorporate other sources Read More …

Peer Review #3 I thought Owen’s paper was very well thought out. He provided many ideas about how narratives shape who we are and impact how we engage in our lives. There are some places that he could add on to or change to really make the paper flow well. For instance, his conclusion can Read More …

I feel like there are many points in our lives that we could agree that we are one or the other. I feel like as we grow and change our viewpoints change. Therefore, we may feel like we are a “Narrative” at some points and not at others. I think it all has to come Read More …

Julie Beck, who wrote Life’s Stories about how sorting your life’s points into a narrative shapes who you are, quoted Jonathan Gottschall when she said, “Even if we are, as the writer Jonathan Gottschall put it, “storytelling animals,” what does that mean from one person to the next?” I feel like the actual meaning of Read More …

This is a little part of an essay I had to write for another class, Freedom and Authority. The yellow highlights are transitions, the orange is pointing term, the blue highlights are repetitive words. I see that I use the same words over and over again. I believe that if I would go back and Read More …