Your name: Andrew Sears
Your home town: Dunwoody, GA
Your major(s): Art History and English
Are you fluent in any language(s) other than English? Semi-fluent in Spanish
What are your career plans? Hopefully I’ll be doing some type of curating or conservation work at an art museum. Medieval is my concentration for my Art History major, so I’d like to be in that field.
What is your favorite book or author and why? The Canterbury Tales. It’s satire at its best.
What is your most frequent grammatical error? It’s not really an error, but I tend to over-use semicolons.
What is your biggest grammatical pet peeve? Your vs. you’re.
What is your favorite word? Flapdoodle
What is your favorite procrastination method when you have a paper to write? A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila
Describe (in a short paragraph) a significant breakthrough in your development as a writer: I had always been taught to focus on plot in literature. And then, when taking my first Art History class and writing papers on both the formal and interpretive qualities of artwork, I began to realize that the same approach should be applied to literature. Interpretation of plot is certainly important, but syntax and style (“formal” qualities) are equally integral, and I think that these aspects of writing are oftentimes overlooked; while one might want to focus on what happens in a story, being conscious of how the story is translated to the reader should also be focused on.
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