Category: Creative Writing

Pick any one exercise from last week or this weeks assigned chapters of Blurring the Boundaries (pages 247-250). Develop the exercise into an essay of 750 to 1,000 words. (The lower word limit is mandatory. The upper word limit is somewhat flexible.) Remember, this piece must be narrative nonfiction. Incorporate the elements of writing, such as scene, imagery, dialogue, characterization, and voice. Proofread well. Use MLA format. Remember also that we did not read Ryan Boudinot’s “An Essay and a Story about Motley Crue”. You may not use the writing exercise associated with that story. You must write a story about actual people and actual events, not a flight of fancy about what might have been.

In the same file, preface your essay with a reflection letter that answers these questions: (These do not count towards the final word count.)

What inspired you to choose the topic you wrote about?

What were your goals for this essay? Did you accomplish those goals?

What were some difficulties you encountered while writing this essay? How did you work through them?

What are the strengths and weaknesses of the essay?

How might you further improve it for the final project?

What questions do you have for your instructor at this time?

For your project, you will create two versions of the same paper, an analysis of a written work. In the first version, you will explain the writers choices in relation to genre, audience, purpose, and subject. You will also write about the core idea of the text as well as the details that support it. This first version should be focused on the first audience that you selected. To submit this version for the project, revise the draft you wrote earlier in the course using the feedback you received from your instructor. Your instructor will evaluate this version based on your analysis of the text and on how you use evidence from the text to support it.

For the second version of the analysis essay, you will adapt what you have written to a different audience and writing situation of your choice. Adapting your essay means making changes throughout your paper to adapt your writing situation based on the needs of the audience and situation. Therefore, you will use the first version of your essay as the foundation for the second version of your essay, but with the changes to reflect the different audience. Your instructor will evaluate this version based on how you adapt your writing.

Use either the APA or MLA template linked in the What to Submit section to complete your project.

Specifically, you must address the following:

Part One: Analysis of a Written Work for a First Audience

In this section, you will analyze a written work and explain some of the writers choices. This is the first version of your paper. The audience for this version is the one you addressed in the draft you wrote in Module Five. This part of your project should be about 1 to 2 pages long.

1. Part One: Topic: Identify the topic of the text.
2. Part One: Genre: Explain the writers choices in relation to the genre of the text.
3. Part One: Purpose: Describe the writers purpose.
4. Part One: Audience, Purpose, and Subject: Explain the writers choices in relation to the audience, purpose, and subject of the text.
5. Part One: Historical and Cultural Context: Determine the historical and cultural context of the text.
6. Part One: Core Idea: Articulate and evaluate the core idea of the text.
7. Part One: Details: Summarize details of the text that are relevant to the core idea.
8. Part One: Evidence: Support your analysis of the core idea with evidence from the text.
9. Include at least one quote from the text.
10. Explain how this evidence supports the core idea.

Part Two: Analysis of a Written Work for a Second Audience

This is the second version of your paper. In this version, you will first choose and describe the new audience and writing situation. Then, you will revisit the first version of your paper and make changes to it to adapt to your writing situation. You will be graded on the quality of how you adapt this paper to a second audience, not on the content of the paper.

Identify a new audience: Before you get started with your second version, choose a new audience and writing situation by addressing the following items in a few short paragraphs:

1. Part Two: New Audience: Identify an audience for the second version of your paper.
2. This audience must be different from the one you addressed in the first version of your paper.
3. Part Two: Audience Needs: Describe the needs of that audience.
4. Part Two: Writing Situation: Describe the needs of the writing situation for the second version of your paper.
5. Choose a writing situation different from the one you addressed in the first version of your paper. Then, describe the needs of that writing situation.

Second version of the paper: Now, revisit the analysis you wrote for the first version of your paper. Adapt it based on the needs of the audience and writing situation you described in the previous section. You will be graded on the quality of this adaptation. This part of your project should be about 1 to 2 pages long. Specifically, do the following:

1. Part Two: Writing Style: Adapt your writing style based on the needs of your audience.
2. Adapting your writing will require you to make a significant number of changes. While the core idea of your paper will remain the same, the style that you use to communicate it to your audience will be different. Additionally, the changes you make should be consistent throughout the paper.
3. Part Two: Writing Conventions: Adapt your writing conventions based on the needs of the writing situation.
4. Adapting your writing will require you to make a significant number of changes. While the core idea of your paper will remain the same, the way that you communicate it to your audience will be different. Additionally, the changes you make should be consistent throughout the paper.

Im using Nicole Pelsue article “Take A Break!”– this is the ONLY resource im able to use

Write a creative, narrative essay with emotional depth and strong voice. The piece should feel personal, reflective, and imaginative, suitable for a highly selective international context. The essay must be no more than 500 words. If I am happy with it, I will ask you to expand it with a new order up to 1500 words, so the structure should allow for organic development.

Prompt – Write from the perspective of an object that has witnessed three generations of the same family. Through its observations, the object reveals moments, emotions, or patterns the family themselves have forgotten, overlooked, or never consciously recognized/known.

The object functions as a lens rather than a commentator: meaning should emerge indirectly through what it notices, remembers, or measures over time. It must use advanced literacy devices (personification, hyperbole, Onomatopoeia, Pathetic fallacy (sense of foreboding), Alliteration, Foreshadowing

Key:

• Implied authorial voice: an 18-year-old girl living in Italy
• Tone: reflective, emotionally intelligent, restrained
• Avoid sentimentality, explanation, or moralizing
• Creative writing only (not argumentative or analytical)
• Meaning should arise from scene, imagery, and implication
• Use concrete, specific details and simple, precise language (not formal)
• One clear thematic spine – Structure should be invisible but intentional
• End with resonance, not stated moral

The writer is free to use, ignore, or reinterpret any AI-generated draft or concept provided. Originality of voice and thought is the priority.

Please re-instructions as listed in the directions if you have any questions feel free to reach out

Write a short story and a self-reflection based on the course materials(I will provide the course materials)

Basic Manuscript Formatting:

• an MS Word Doc or PDF
• double-spaced (not 1.5 spacing)
• written in 12-point standard font (eg. Calibri, Times New Roman, etc.)
• includes standard margins (your word processing program default is fine)
• includes page numbers
• includes your name and the story title on the first page

Write me an essay in MLA format as if a teenage girl wrote it. The essay is about having unlimited wishes, my wishes are to have unlimited money, to be able to travel anytime I want, and to have a new super power every day. Make it detailed but make it seem like ai didnt write it dont focus on anything specific make it fun

Choose TWO of the following sets of questions to respond to in at least 10 sentences per set (more is welcome). Use the information that you read in the textbook. Please don’t copy off the Internet. Check carefully for misspellings and grammar errors. Refer to the story for support. For each question, respond in a separate paragraph. Include specific quotations or references to the story to illustrate your points. Write in full sentences – no listing please.

1. WATCH THE FILM

• One of the major differences between the film and the story is the change in the ending. Why do you think the director made the change? What are your thoughts? How specifically does it change the story?
• How would you compare/contrast the character of Arnold Friend in the film versus in the story? Was he more or less menacing than in the story? Please explain.
• In general, are books/stories better than the movies they are based on? Please explain. In terms of this story and film, which is better? What is the basis of your criteria to evaluate each? Why?

2. How would you characterize Connie and her relationship with her mother, father and sister? How is she different from June? What is the source of the conflict between Connie and her mother? Do you think that the mother is jealous of Connie’s good looks? Why or why not? Please explain with specific references and quotations.

3. Analyze this quotation from the story. “Everything about her had two sides to it, one for home and one for anywhere that was not home: her walk, which could be childlike and bobbing, or languid enough to make anyone think she was hearing music in her head.” What are the “two sides” of Connie? Why does she behave differently outside of the home? What do these sides reveal about her character? What is she trying to achieve? How does she struggle to reconcile these two sides? Be specific with examples and quotations from the story.

4. At the conclusion of the story, why does Connie go away with Arnold and Ellie?

• Why can’t she resist him?
• Is she flawed in some way?
• Is it her own fault?
• Or is it her family’s fault?
• Does Connie lack the tools to protect herself?
• Please explain with specific references and quotations.

5. Oates has written that at the end of the story, Connie is a hero.

• Does Connie’s final actions seem heroic to you? Why or why not? Is she more a victim than a hero?
• Even though you might not think so, in what ways can her actions be considered heroic? Does she go with Arnold because she fears for the safety of her family? Please explain.
• If she is seen as a hero, how does this change the nature of the ending or the meaning of the story itself and your perception of Connie?
• Is Connies decision at the end truly a choice, or is she coerced? Why?
• Is Connies decision an act of fear, sacrifice, or inevitability?

6. Analyze this quotation “Connie sat with her eyes closed in the sun, dreaming and dazed with the warmth about her as if this were a kind of love, the caresses of love, and her mind slipped over thoughts of the boy she had been with the night before and how nice he had been, how sweet it always was {…} sweet, gentle, the way it was in movies and promised in songs.”

What does this quotation indicate about her ideas of love and relationships?

How does the music she listens to influence her perspective on romance and love?

Is it a mature and adult perspective? Why or why not?