Lauren Lucas
Capstone Portfolio
Writing to Explore
"By trusting myself...I started to get a firmer grasp on my writing, and was experiencing for the first time since coming to college how it felt to write for myself."
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Why I Write
(Original and Final Draft)
Sex and the City: Desensitization
The Choice
This was an assignment for Writing 220, the introduction course to the Minor in Writing. The task seemed simple enough -tell the reader why you write -but it made me explore writing in a new way and opened my eyes to what writing really means to me.
This was a research paper for Communications 381, an upper-level writing course. The prompt invited students to explore a topic of our choosing. At the time, I was interested in the depictions of sex in media, so this essay represents a step in using writing to explore my own interests.
These were also assignments for Writing 220. The first (on left) was a re-purposing assignment; I took an essay about music festivals that I had written for another class and transformed the topic into a short story about a young girl whose attempts to fund a trip to a music festival takes her down a bad path. The second (on right) was a remediation of this story; I imagined the story as a film and created a faux movie trailer.
