Saints Peter and Paul grade school is where my incredibly poor foundation of writing was bestowed upon me. Luckily I moved on to Benet Academy, locally known as The Academy, where the administration never let a soul forget that the average ACT score at The Academy is a …

View Burgtorf’s Playbill for “English 111” before readings the accompanying critique below. A Critique of the New Musical, “English 111” By Bourtney Curgtorf and appeared in The New York Times on April 27, 2012 Courtney Burgtorf plays Student 1 in this funny, upbeat new musical about …

Two things I enjoy doing are writing and baking. I think, that writing is a lot like baking. And to write a good piece of literature, whatever it may be, is like baking a delicious cake. Marble cake is one of my favorites. I have …

Throughout the academic year I feel that my writing skills have improved a tremendous amount. I feel that due to my college writing experience, my approach to beginning a paper has changed for the better. I have acquired new tools to help me convey my …

Going into high school, I did not understand how some people are ‘good’ writers while others are not. I could not grasp the concept of working on a paper as much as I would study for a test. I wrote essays, revised them for grammatical …

The purpose for writing has a different meaning to everyone, yet it cannot be denied that it has an incredibly powerful purpose, even if we cannot decide on a universal definition. However, I believe writing is a way to convey the ideas that can be …