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Sam

Your name: Sam Whitehead

Your home town: Lawrenceville, Georgia

Your major(s): English, Philosophy

Are you fluent in any language(s) other than English? No

What are your career plans? Terribly uncertain...hopefully find a job teaching at the college level.

What is your favorite book or author and why? Currently, Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut because I have a strong desire to reread it every time I finish it.

What is your most frequent grammatical error? Ending sentences with prepositions, but, depending on who you talk to, this may or may not still be an error.

What is your biggest grammatical pet peeve? Verb-tense shifts

What is your favorite word? Avuncular

What is your favorite procrastination method when you have a paper to write? Wasting time on Learnlink

Describe (in a short paragraph) a significant breakthrough in your development as a writer: It’s not enough to be a good writer and get by on style and finesse alone, one must also master the natural logical progression of an argument to truly write a good academic paper.

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