by Cameron Steuart At this point in the year, the students in my Music in the Twentieth-Century course are just getting started with the first assignment that will eventually build to an end-of-term paper. For this component, they have to provide me with a topic and an abstract that is focused on methodology. In anticipation…
by Melissa Gomes I have had the rare privilege of getting to both take the writing-intensive class in linguistics as an undergraduate student and now assist teaching the same course as a graduate student. My first experience with the Writing Intensive Program (WIP) was three years ago as an undergraduate linguistics major taking LING 3150:…
by Nick Toebben As I was finishing my undergraduate degree at Wake Forest, I started to feel more and more like a machine. In a bid to graduate on time, nine of my final ten courses were in statistics—it was as numerical of a schedule as one could devise. As I progressed, I noticed that…
by Nicole Gallucci “Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill your darlings.” —Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft I never really received substantial feedback on writing assignments during the first three years of my undergraduate career. I labored over my writing, always striving for…