Category: Our Community


  • Creative Writing Faculty Panel

    Wednesday night, Writers Community hosted a panel featuring the Creative Writing faculty of Ball State. The panel included professors Mark Neely, Cathy Day, Jill Christman, Matt Mullins, and Sean Lovelace, and was designed to offer students the opportunity to tap into the professors’ intimate knowledge of the world of creative writing. This was my experience. […]

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  • Faculty Spotlight: Kellie D. Weiss

    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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  • We’ve All Been Through This

    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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  • The Writing Center: A Tutor’s Experience

    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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  • Welcome!

    Thanks for visiting Ball State University’s English department blog! We’re currently in the process of setting things up. Check back in a week or so and see what’s changed. In the meantime take a look at out our Twitter account at http://twitter.com/bsuenglish.

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