Hello, my name is Gunnar, and I’m from Olympia Washington. I grew up playing sports and was always outside as a kid, rain or shine. I love the outdoors, my friends, and spending time with my family. I am currently a freshman at Western Washington University and I’m interested in becoming a business major. My dad has his own business and seeing him be so successful in his job makes me think what’s really possible out there. I have always been competitive and really try to succeed in everything I do so I can try and make my work and studying into as much of a game/competition as possible.
What makes me unique as a writer or a student is my persistence and drive. Once I get on a topic and start writing, my ideas just start flow and I am working on the project until it’s done. The writing I enjoy the most is when I can write about a personal story or a topic that really connects with me because it is easier to pick out details and brings a more personal feeling to the paper I’m writing. My talents in writing tend to be my ability to make the story or paper I’m writing, personal and can tie in a personal experience to any topic or writing assignment.
My partner and I created a web text from a previous project we completed, titled “Writing in Music”. Our project was to determine if listening to music while you write helps or improves your writing through a survey and two short writing prompts. One done while listening to music and the other while not. https://wp.wwu.edu/musicinwriting/
Our process for creating this web text came from an idea that my partner Brannen came up with which was to make all our different sections separate so that the person on our site would have to interact with our website more to keep them more involved and focused. We are not completely done with the design aspects of our webtext but thus far we have John Denver as our slide pictures and on the other side is each component of our project. We will continue to add charts, more pictures and clean up the look.