Writing 340 // Summer 2020

Our schedule for this semester is going to evolve, mutate, and remain an alive document. I have plans and expectations, but I need your help (class) to make sure each assignment, each workshop, and each due date is going to ensure you create the most VALUABLE and MEANINGFUL writing.

The WHAT Of It All

PURPOSE:
This semester we’re not solely looking at the world and all its cultures, subcultures, phenomena, etc. This class is…

Intentional Participation

“Is it worth continuing to rehearse the things that I was told were important, or is this an opportunity to…

Street Smart

The fear of being perceived as ignorant has been a concern of mine since I was little. My father was born and raised in Compton, California and my mother was born in Los Cerritos, Mexico before she immigrated to the United States at the age of four. Both of my parents grew up relatively poor, so when my…

Classroom approaches to better reach intellectual freedom

The Language of Millennial Writers

Stepping into Self with Stephanie Renée Payne is a truly inspirational episode in the Writing Remix…

Woke Up And Wrote…

I’m literally freestyling this post, so there’s gonna be fragmented sentences, run-on sentences, and punctuation issues, but this isn’t about “staying inside the lines” this is about resistance and truth and what happens when one human being dehumanized another human being so much that their…