Hello, my name is Emma. I am currently in my first year at Western Washington University. I have lived in Washington my entire life, mostly in the Seattle area. I have loved to read, mostly fantasy, since I was young. I haven’t decided on a major yet and am using my first year of college to explore. My abilities in school have always been spread out between subjects. There has never been one subject that I have been better at than the others. While I have loved reading, writing has never been my favorite thing to do. I dreaded writing essays for class. For me, writing was always associated with homework and stress. This class has expanded my view of writing. This expansion has made me realize that when I said I hated writing, I wasn’t actually telling the truth. While I don’t like writing essays, I do l consider myself good at writing emails. My mom has tried to tell me that I used to like creative writing, that I was good at it, and that I should do it some more. Her efforts have mostly gone unrewarded. My passion is for reading someone else’s work, not write my own. Reading is not my only passion. My status as a tap dancer and sometime actor show my love for dance and theater, both for doing it and learning about them. One school essay that was not as horrible to write was a history of tap dancing. Reading about the history was fascinating, especially since I could connect it to my own dancing and experience with tap.
My and my partner Ava’s webtext is focused around the results of our research into the benefits of reading creative writing every day for college students. It is a simple design that is inviting and easy to navigate. We started off with a more complicated and colorful design, then discovered that the template was too hard to use to showcase our study. We switched to a simpler design that allowed us to personalize the site to our study. We designed the menu and page titles to look like the table of contents of a book. Our home is like the title page, we have a prequel that sums up the beginnings of our research, chapters that explain our research and results, and extras that include the stories that we used as well as the questions and some sample answers that we got to those questions. We thought that this would be an interesting parallel to the topic of our research.
Writing is a PROCESS Not a Product