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  • Welcome back!
    August 27, 2010 by

    Hello! Whispers have been circulating around Robert Bell about this year. Lots of them, mysterious in origin as The Shadow or how people learned they could turn horse hooves into a sticky milk for applying their materials gained from the glitter mines of Eastern Europe/Western Asia to their formerly ho hum holiday greeting cards. Since whispers […]

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  • Students from Near and Far
    May 17, 2010 by

    English professor Martha Payne photographed some of her writing program students this semester and shares some details about their presentations. Hollin Bolden, Zach Wojdyla, Ty Rosberg, and Katrina Foree  presented on Social Class in Victorian England and had brought food to represent what members of those classes might have eaten: scones and grape juice for […]

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  • A Day as an Intern: Whittley Lewis
    May 17, 2010 by

    I spent my Spring 2010 semester working as in intern for the 2010 legislative session with the Indiana Republican Representatives. A typical day included arriving at 8:30.  At 9am, I would go to the House Chambers and organize the desks of all 4 Representatives on my case load.  I got to know each member personally […]

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  • Faculty Spotlight: Kellie D. Weiss
    April 29, 2010 by

    To make the English department at Ball State more personable, these faculty spotlights will occasionally appear on the blog. I’m happy to inaugurate the faculty spotlight series with Kellie Weiss, visiting Assistant Professor of English: First, if you could explain where you came from, in terms of your education. And what do you teach at […]

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  • English 409: Creative Writing in the Community Reading
    April 26, 2010 by

    This past Thursday, April 22, English 409 Creative Writing in the Community held a reading at Cornerstone Center for the Arts. Throughout the semester, English 409 students collaborated with clients in a variety of organizations in Delaware County, including Big Brothers Big Sisters, Heritage Retirement Village, Hilcroft Services, Inc., and Motivate Our Minds.  This is […]

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  • Another Great Learning Experience at Ball State
    April 24, 2010 by

    The summer of 2009 was coming to a close, and I found myself in Munice an entire week before school even started. Turns out wandering through the Muncie Mall, down southern Tilloston, and around the village only makes the fact of not having a job seem that much more hopeless and depressing with each application […]

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  • Interning with Sarabande Books
    April 22, 2010 by

    As my senior year approached, I started to feel the after-college strain. I looked around and saw my friends in accounting and telecommunications snagging jobs and internships like free t-shirts at a concert. Meanwhile, I was sitting in the library for hours on end, sending out application after application to various publishing companies, newspapers and […]

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  • English 435 and Blog Origins
    April 16, 2010 by

    According to Technorati, an online tracking system for blogs, 94 million Americans are blog readers while 22 million are bloggers themselves. The Wall Street Journal estimated that about two million Americans make some money from blogging and that over 450,000 Americans make a living from blogging. Newspaper, corporations, and universities all employ bloggers; bloggers are […]

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  • We’ve All Been Through This
    April 15, 2010 by

    Stream-of-consciousness commentary on my relationship with writing More often than not, I can’t just sit down and write. I have found that when it comes to writing and other hobbies, such as drawing, these activities are preceded with a lingering sense of dread, a coil of reluctance that slithers up from my stomach and wraps […]

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