Wheaton Blog

By Ellen Parent, Class of 2013 My host parents here in Paris are party animals.  On any given night, multiple dinner guests want to know…

by Annie Rosenblad, Class of 2012 One of the most daunting challenges I’ve faced in college is expressing my personal voice in academic writing. My…

by Deborah Stoloff, Wheaton College Tutor Coordinator I write short fiction. I meet with my writing group every month. We prioritize our time together and…

Delanie Honda, Class of 2014

by Joanna Bouras, Class of 2014. Oh No, not again…ANOTHER research paper?! Doesn’t my professor know that I have better things to do than sit…

by Sedra Davis, Class of 2014. In my English 101 class last semester, I was assigned the task of choosing a topic or subject that…

by Joel C. Relihan. I write with a certain formality regardless of medium. I have never sent an uncapitalized e-mail; on the rare occasions when…

When we turn on our computers and connect to the Internet, we enter into a virtual world that has transformed writing, writing practices, and writing…

When I plan to write something–after emptying wastebaskets, walking dogs, fiddling about, anything to prevent that initial moment of staring at a blank computer screen…

“The Magic Slippers” was the first book I wrote. I was six years old and in the first grade.