Research: All Good Writers Do It

This last weekend Baz Luhrmann’s film The Great Gatsby premiered in American theaters.  I haven’t had a chance to get to the theater to see it, but I will probably do that soon.  School is winding down and soon I will have the summer to write, do editing projects, and spend time with my family doing

Creative Writing Techniques for the Essay Writer

In my years of teaching students how to write well formed essays, I have seen my fair share of texts written with boring verbs, humdrum descriptions and lazy constructions.  In order for a student to rise above the chaff of the mediocre scribblings of others, that student must understand that there is much to learn