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Your name: Kenneth Hong
Your home town: Spokane, WA
Your major(s): Economics/Sociology
Are you fluent in any language(s) other than English? Semi-proficient in Korean
What are your career plans? Law School
What is your favorite book or author and why? Native Speaker by Chang-Rae Lee. I appreciated Lee's insightful look into the complexities of the Korean-American experience, and the struggle to balance senses of personal identity.
What is your most frequent grammatical error? Too many commas
What is your biggest grammatical pet peeve? Choppy sentences with poor word choice
What is your favorite word? Katzenjammer
What is your favorite procrastination method when you have a paper to write? Going out?!
Describe (in a short paragraph) a significant breakthrough in your development as a writer: Throughout the entirety of my academic career, I have always been a prolific writer, and never had a problem filling up pages. It was not until college, however, that I realized the value that simplicity and conciseness can have in anyone's writing. When a simple word suffices, then use it. When a long sentence can be stated more economically, then shorten it. I'm also a believer in the importance of a strongly formulated thesis, the crux and driving point of any paper. A true thesis, in my opinion, should be so determined that it can be expressed in a sentence, a single paragraph, or even an entire page. If you can do this, then you have a true thesis that can be used to compose a successful paper.
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