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Month: April 2010

  • 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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  • Book Review: Alice I have Been by Melanie Benjamin
    April 14, 2010 by

    The infatuation with Alice in Wonderland has been an everlasting wonder since the release of the book, written by Lewis Carroll, in 1865.  It became even more popular with the release of Disney’s animated film, but became a craze with the release of the 3D version of the film on March 5th, 2010.  However, not many people are […]

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  • Writing Center Tutors Take on ECWCA
    April 14, 2010 by

    Ball State University was well-represented at the 2010 East Central Writing Center Association Conference in East Lansing, Michigan this April. Three undergraduate students (Tyler Gobble, Phil Call, and Neal Coleman) and two English graduate students (Emily Standridge and Dani Weber) who all work at the Writing Center presented papers at the conference. In a panel presentation “Exploring […]

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  • Benefit Reading for Haiti is a Success
    April 14, 2010 by

    Students from the English Education Club and English faculty members Pam Hartman and Melissa Adams-Campbell organized a benefit reading for the victims of the Haiti earthquakes on April 5, 2010. The event, featured in the Daily News, asked for volunteer readers and pledges from the Ball State community. Together, they raised an impressive $235 in just two hours.

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  • The Writing Center: A Tutor’s Experience
    April 14, 2010 by

    The Writing Center helps Ball State University students with writing projects. The tutors offer free, one-on-one 50-minute sessions on all varieties of writing projects: essays, reports, websites, slideshows, theses, dissertations, proposals, resumes, and applications. The Writing Center’s purpose is to help students become better writers, whether it be learning to find grammatical errors or to […]

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