Question, Research, Experiment, and Write

Fifth grade is when I started writing for my own pleasure.  Every single night before turning out the light and snuggling into my bed I would retrieve my composition notebook from underneath my mattress and begin to write.  After years went by I started giving my entries titles; a way of making a typical day seem unique.  It wasn’t until my later years of middle school when I began writing short stories.  I even recall locking myself in my room spending hours on end drawing pictures of scenarios and writing a short story about each.  When I was finished I would gather all the loose pieces of ideas and thoughts and shove them all into the pages of my composition notebook.  Eventually, when I entered into early adulthood my passion for writing has followed.  As I have written before:

Yes I poemize my feelings, how I feel and why
I believe that writing gives me a way out of my mind for some time,
that to prevent from going insane I let what is festering inside,
out
because after all, talking to myself within my room would just look crazy
However, I have to admit that I do tend to do it sometimes

Elizabeth Carr

Although I am hoping to graduate from Grand Valley’s College of Education with a masters in Earth Science and a minor in English I am hoping to take my passion for writing with me.  Therefore I am going to focus my blog on writing across the curriculum.  I have subscribed to google reader where I linked certain articles from databases, google news, and about.com to help aid me in my research.  Unfortunately, when I googled “Writing Across the Curriculum” I found many beneficial articles that did not have a RSS feed which would allow me to easily view articles pertaining to my topic without having to google it every single time.  However I am confident that the ones I did subscribe to will be helpful.  So basically, from my research I hope to identify whether or not writing across the curriculum is beneficial or harmful to learning and ways in which other subject areas can incorporate writing assignments.

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