Tag: Undergraduate

The Undergrad Writer: Oh, So You Want to be a Teacher?

By Cassandra Capewell

Being an English major combines many of the things in life that I enjoy deep down to my core: I love reading, which is nice because most of my assignments are lengthy portions of text. I love writing, both creatively and academically, so hunkering down to bang out an eight-page paper, if I have enough… Read more »

The UnderGrad Writer: On Vulnerability and The Workshop

By Cassandra Capewell

The Writers’ Workshop is one of the most important lessons in writing. Workshops are designed to offer writers an array of critiques in order to improve a specific piece. Most college programs, to some extent, incorporate a workshop aspect. As I mentioned in my first blog post, when I initially walked into a class called… Read more »

The Undergrad Writer: Really Bad Drafts

By Cassandra Capewell

I have a theory about all of those happy writers sitting in coffee shops. All of those happy writers sitting in coffee shops are only happy because they’re doing it wrong. I observed these happy writers often from a long Starbucks line at 8:00am through my yawning eyes, and I never once thought I could… Read more »