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An Essay within an Essay

Teresa Hoffman The light-bulb clicked on while I was revising a paper for an English Literature class.  I was making a case for why computer programming is not a good…

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Writing in a Second Language

Sarah Smith Writing in a second language can be frustrating and overwhelming. When I lived in Brazil, I took classes that required me to do some writing in Portuguese. This…

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Andre Hardy

On Football, Hard-Boiled Detective Fiction, and Freedom Before Andre Hardy was a writer he was an athlete, and a damn good one at that. He was strong, fast, coordinated, powerful—the…

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Sarita Sidhu

Sarita Sidhu on writing her life and on the writer she has become Humor for a writer is one of those elusive traits — either you have it or you…