These prompts focus on names and the relationships three people have with their own names. Writing about your own name can be a lighthearted experience or it can be one that explores personal conflicts or relationships or loyalties that are challenging. Writing about our names brings out a lot of strong, personal writing because our connection […]
Purdue OWL: The Difference Between the Personal Essay the Memoir
A memoir does more than “retell a story” that really happened. A memoir investigates into a personal event that took place in the past. From the Purdue OWL: Difference Between the Personal Essay and the Memoir From the resource: While the personal essay can be about something that is current and still unfolding, the memoir […]
Developing Character Through Dialogue: “Three Anti-Social Skills to Improve Your Writing”
In “Three Anti-Social Skills to Improve Your Writing,” a TED-Ed video by Nadia Kalman, author of The Cosmopolitans, you will learn about how dialogue informs our understanding of character in fiction:
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