This week's blog topics are:
Write about the pressures you feel as a college student. Do you feel pressure from the four kinds of pressures Zinsser describes (economic, parental, peer, and self-induced)?
Segal classifies excuses from college students in an essay that was written for The Chronicle of Higher Education. How would you identify her tone? (We will discuss tone in class.) If she were to re-write this essay for college students, how might she change her tone?
Re Saunders. Write a character sketch of someone you know who is a "girly-girl" or a "macho man." Using exemplification, show your readers why you've classified this person as such.
Saunders writes about sexuality in a way that makes one realize that the way gender is expressed is highly individual. If one were to take his proposal seriously, how would you feel about having to become more "female" or more "male?" What aspects of yourself would you have to change and how would you do it?
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