Author: Ari Owenby

Welcome to my personal narrative story process. This shows my project from start to finish that my professor outlined for us to do. Brainstorming Ideas This post is for my initial brainstorming for my first digital story. You can see the different topics I had running through my head but I ultimately settled on one… Continue reading Digital Story →

This was a course for my minor, which is professional writing. The course was meant to emphasize strategies for producing effective documents in a variety of professional contexts. We gained practice with common workplace forms as we mastered writing clearly with the needs and expectations of their audiences in mind. The course was particularly valuable… Continue reading Workplace Writing →

This course was part of my minor, which is professional writing. This course taught me the in's and out's to copyediting and taught me how to critically look at a given document. Required Book The Copyeditor's Handbook: A Guide for Book Publishing and Corporate Communicates (4th Edition) by Amy Einsohn and Marilyn Schwartz Assignments First… Continue reading Professional Editing →

Fiction Writing Course Required Books Wired for Story by Lisa Cron Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft by Janet Burroway Fiction Writing Course Suggested Books All of these books were written by my professor How to Write a Novel by Melanie Sumner (Free Amazon Audiobook) The Ghost of Milagro Creek by Melanie Sumner The… Continue reading Fiction Writing →

This course was one of my favorite courses during college, mostly due to my connection to the professor that taught it. I also learned quite a lot and had my eyes opened to the wonderful opportunities English majors can engage in. This course was also something that counted for my minor, which is professional writing.… Continue reading Careers in Writing →

For my senior seminar course, I decided to take a course that revolved around the environment and sustainability issues. The first half of the semester consisted of reading novels and texts that were about the environment. The second half was all about our final documented essay, which was essentially our capstone project for our entire… Continue reading Senior Seminar →

This course involved careful examination of the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, two leading American Transcendentalists, as well as their friendship. We also discussed their work among comtemporaries, including Margaret's Fullers protofeminist transformation of Emerson's Philosophy, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s complex satirizing of what he calls the “cloudy and dreamy metaphysics” of Transcendentalism,… Continue reading 19th Century American Literature →

This course was devoted to the study of Shakespeare's life and works. We focused on his career as a poet, playwright, actor, and theater owner. We also looked at the ecological context of Shakespeare's life and works. Sonnet 12 This paper was a deep reading paper of a sonnet from a given list. I went… Continue reading Shakespeare →

This course examined intersections between cultural norms and values of the Southern United States with gender and related identity categories such as race, class, and sexuality. The course got students to consider ways that gender, race, class, and sexuality are complicated by and related to regional ideas, history, and identity. It also explored gender in… Continue reading Gender and the US South →

This course allowed students to approach the problem of defining America from a variety of angles. We read a diverse selection of American writers from the seventeenth century until the present day and we explored historical, biographical, and cultural contexts for each writer for clues to his or her meaning. We also encountered many different… Continue reading American Lit Survey →