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General Writing, Writing & Rhetoric

Blurring the STEM/Humanities Divide: How Writing is Approached in a STEM Heavy School

By Grace Sargent Introduction:  My position as an English major working at Stony Brook University’s writing center has revealed to me a great deal about science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) students’ perceptions of writing, writing classes, and our writing center. More specifically, I have learned STEM students widely share the idea that each contains little value in the overview of their education, and can … Continue reading Blurring the STEM/Humanities Divide: How Writing is Approached in a STEM Heavy School

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General Writing

The Allure of Fanfiction: The Life of a Fantastic Creative Community

By Maria Sazonova In a Chrome window with an alarming amount of tabs as small as the infinitesimal pieces in an integral function, crowded together with no breathing space, I would bounce from fanfic to fanfic. I would read until ungodly hours of the morning, and the never ending words burned themselves on the back of my eyelids as I fantasized about the story at … Continue reading The Allure of Fanfiction: The Life of a Fantastic Creative Community

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General Writing, Teaching Writing, Writing & Rhetoric

An Open Letter to the MTA

By Sophie Hoss Dear Metropolitan Transportation Authority: I’ve ridden your trains all through my childhood, and I’ve commuted on them almost every day of high school and college. The train is the easiest and most convenient method of transportation available to me, but as a longtime patron, it has come to my attention that there is a need for stronger safety precautions for women taking … Continue reading An Open Letter to the MTA

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Teaching Writing

National Day on Writing and A Six Word Challenge

RhetComp Blog Editorial Staff Can you compress your life down to six words?  For National Day of Writing on Thursday, October 20th, the RhetComp blog and Stony Brook University’s Program in Writing and Rhetoric are challenging readers to create six word memoirs. The concept of a six word story was popularized by author Ernest Hemingway. When asked to write a full story in six words, … Continue reading National Day on Writing and A Six Word Challenge

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General Writing, Spring 2022, Teaching Writing, Writing & Rhetoric

The Personal Essay: Refining the Song of My Life

By Annie Lin My favorite class, by far, at Stony Brook is WRT303: The Personal Essay. I took the course in the spring of my junior year, accompanying a crowd of pre-health students strongly encouraged to do so in order to ease the process of crafting a successful personal statement. I convinced myself I was different, reminding myself that I was a writing minor and … Continue reading The Personal Essay: Refining the Song of My Life

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Teaching Writing

How to Successfully Navigate the Medical School Application Cycle (+ My Own Experiences)

Shivasuryan Vummidi In a nutshell, my medical school application cycle for this academic year was an emotional rollercoaster. When I first began applying to medical schools, I felt confident in myself and in my application, only to then become neurotic and anxious towards the middle of my cycle, but then suddenly be reinvigorated when I finally got an acceptance. To all the premeds at Stony … Continue reading How to Successfully Navigate the Medical School Application Cycle (+ My Own Experiences)

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General Writing, Rhetoric, Short Stories, Teaching Writing, Writing & Rhetoric

The Countdown

She is the second eldest of her siblings and the second daughter of her parents. She is not the boy they were hoping for. Although they took care of all four children, she knows she is the unwanted extra child. If they had a son, they wouldn’t have tried for a third child. The “third child” wouldn’t have come out as twin boys who depleted … Continue reading The Countdown

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General Writing, Miscellaneous, Supporting Students, Teaching Anecdotes, Teaching Tips, Teaching Writing

Coffee Seminar: A Cup of Life Lessons

Teaching and learning comes in many forms – in this anecdote, Stony Brook University Writing and Rhetoric’s Joe Labriola explains the scholarly value of his end of semester fresh pour over coffee seminar! The end of the semester is a time of substantial stress – for both students and teachers alike. The former often find themselves immersed within panicked, self-insomnia-forced study sessions, while the latter … Continue reading Coffee Seminar: A Cup of Life Lessons

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