Academic publishing – Write on the World

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While reading an article in Teaching Life Writing Texts for class, I came across an interesting writing prompt that I thought I would share with you. I’m going to present this in two parts: the first will probably be one of the easiest writing assignments you have ever been given, while the second will require some thought.

Part One

“Describe a cuisine experience that was personally significant to [you]” (288).

This should be an easy assignment, don’t you think? Just reflect on a significant experience in your life that was in some way connected to food. Write an essay about this experience, share it on your blog (or in the comments below), and post a link to your blog post below. Then come back next week for part two of the assignment. Continue reading “Wednesday Writing Prompt: Food, part 1” →

In a recent Wednesday Writing Prompt, I asked you to consider what themes and motifs seem to appear regularly in your everyday life. One theme that regularly appears in my life is the concept of “truth.” This has occasionally crossed my mind over the past three years, but finally hit home last week when I discovered that yet another research paper had turned into a discussion of the identification and exploration of universal truths.

I’d been writing a narratological analysis of Elizabeth George Speare’s historical YA novel, The Witch of Blackbird Pond and found that many of the academic resources I was reviewing on historical fiction seem to touch on those aspects of human nature that are largely unchanged from one generation to the next. While this was, by no means, the thesis of any of the research papers I read, it was the one common thread that seemed to weave through all of the pieces. Continue reading “Life is Truth” →