Your name: Joshua Glasser
Your home town: Atlanta, Ga
Your major(s): Political Science
Are you fluent in any language(s) other than English? No
What are your career plans? Medicine, teaching or maybe both
What is your favorite book or author and why? The Lord of the Rings. My dad read it to me when I was little. It was the first story I really got into.
What is your most frequent grammatical error? Forgetting commas
What is your biggest grammatical pet peeve? Long, rambling, run-on sentences
What is your favorite word? Fantastic
What is your favorite procrastination method when you have a paper to write? Playing frisbee
Describe (in a short paragraph) a significant breakthrough in your development as a writer: When I was a sophomore, I received a very difficult paper assignment. I was asked to combine the teachings of three very different philosophers into a single cohesive unit, a piece of advice describing how one should live. It was the first time that I had to write a paper that didn't answer a specific prompt. Instead, I had to know the works well enough to pick out their central themes and try to fit them together. I learned how important it is to be really comfortable with the information that goes into a paper. Reading through a book once is rarely enough to allow you to turn in a really good piece of analysis.
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