Blog 10 The cockatiel from down under

An extreme version detailing a story about the study of a bird from Australia. It is sort of a documentary but the purpose of this piece is to show how a wild cockatiel can be tammed to live inside a house and be completely dependant on a humans for its means of survival.

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On pre-writing a memoir

I trying to find something to write about but am having trouble. Does a memoir have to be in the present tense speaking of something in the past or in the past tense speaking as if it were in the present?

Blog 14

For the nature essay 1. Find a focus 2. Write out a brief for the paper 3. Organize brief into an outline form 4. Start writing 5. While writing make sure words relate to topic 6. When finished with one point examine how to bridge into another point\ correctly 7. Repeat procedure until paper is satisfactorily finished I did'nt know much about nature or the outside and I could've gone with talking about rain but I wanted to talk about my cockatiel Spicy since she is very dear to me and so I started thinking about what was going to be the focus of the essay. I began to think about the early times of me and the bird and decided that the focus was going to be the phsycological aspects of having a pet. I organized it based off of this dream I invented-knowingly pushes the limit of the genre but I decided to give it a shot. So the entire essay moved around this dream while still I tried to push the focus forward which was, of whether or not it was right for us to treat animals a...

Blog 12 analysis of a venue

Rhetorical Analysis of Publication Venue 1. Analysis of a publication venue. http://msupress.msu.edu/journals/fg/index.php?Page=home Explores creative nonfiction. They welcome personal essays, nature essays, essays about travel and journalism at a maximum length of 8000 words. Reading date are August 15th to November 30th 2. Description of one story…

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