Overview

 When I think of writing, the use of the human voice comes to mind. The human voice is expressed using various means of sensory communication. For example, the voice can be expressed verbally or with body language or ultimately through the development of composition. As an English major (secondary education), it is imperative that I uphold a proper writing ethic for the sake of my professional development and for the benefit of my students. This obligation is not a difficult one for me to pursue considering my passion for the language arts and its rooted nature in the aspect of literature and composition.

Ever since I can remember, I have always told stories and loved to exaggerate and elaborate on ideas and notions. This pleasure has gotten me into trouble quite a few times, especially when an elaboration is taken as truth by others and our brought back my way for confirmation. Though these minor hang-ups have surfaced in partnership with my vivid imagination, I have never ceased from letting my mind continuously work in a creative manner. In this aspect, according to my fifth grade language arts teacher, I developed a voice and found an outlet of communication to the outside world through writing, which I continue to define in multiple required academic composition assignments, freelance journalism and independent creative writing. The greatest gift we have as erect walking animals (human beings) is the power of imagination, besides the ability to reason and disregard our reliance on instinct. However, many of us as erect walking mammals fail to use this powerful gift and are provoked to bare instinctive writing. What better way to hone, perfect, and humanize such skills other then by writing? Writing! Writing! And more writing!

As my college years come to a rapid end, I have found myself at a significant crossroad of sorts in terms of writing. I have proven in my English courses taken at Ball State University that I can write scholarly in respect to literary pieces and academic essays. This process was of course a long and self-reflective one, which in junction with the desire to improve found varied success. I have effectively composed lesson plans and other educational documents in many of my educational courses. Besides, I have also gained valuable knowledge in journalistic composition, which I applied to write pieces in the areas of journalism at Ball State. However, I have yet to prove myself in the areas of creative writing in terms of the public reader or mass media market, which I dream of communicating with some time in the near future. With my recent success with poetry in the MT Cup Revue, I find myself focusing more on creative prose. I have always had a wild and at times wandering imagination, which I believe in collaboration with the creative writing course I have taken at Ball State University, will help me pursue a childhood dream of becoming a fiction writer. A dream that has been imbedded in my heart, since I won a young author’s contest at Indiana University Northwest, where I wrote my first ever fictional prose piece.

Writing is my cup of hydrating salvation at a table of parched yearning. It is my voice and a significant part of my existence, which I pride myself on improving and wanting to express as important to my future students, be it in the classroom or in the global media classroom (print publication). It is a part of humanities history and the purest means of expression, where the heart at times overrides the mind and unifies to create a piece of logically constructed abstract piece of literature or literary prose.