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Full-Text Articles in Creative Writing
Margin Matters: How To Live On A Simple Budget And Crush Debt Forever, Jason Brown
Margin Matters: How To Live On A Simple Budget And Crush Debt Forever, Jason Brown
Master of Arts in Professional Writing Capstones
According to NerdWallet, 75 percent of Americans do not live off a budget and half of them cannot produce $400 in an emergency. But how much you make isn’t the main concern—it’s your margin that matters most. This capstone, which includes several chapters from the book Margin Matters: How to Live on a Simple Budget and Crush Debt Forever, provides practical strategies for creating and sticking to a simple budget, eliminating debt permanently, and managing expenses to create the most margin at any income level. It describes how the author erased nearly $75,000 of debt in just under three …
Media Guide And Strategic Plan, Ella Greer
Media Guide And Strategic Plan, Ella Greer
Master of Arts in Professional Writing Capstones
An MAPW candidate composes a strategic plan and media guide for a local government office.
Reflecting On And Shattering My White Lens: A Critical Autoethnography On My Experience As A White Editor Working With Authors Of Color, Kelsey Medlin
Reflecting On And Shattering My White Lens: A Critical Autoethnography On My Experience As A White Editor Working With Authors Of Color, Kelsey Medlin
Master of Arts in Professional Writing Capstones
This critical autoethnography aims to reveal how the cultural biases of a white majority industry impact the stories they select for acquisition and how they are edited. As an editor, I came to this topic from my personal desire to see if my own whiteness affects the way I view writers of color, their stories, and the audience that the companies market to. Thus, the purpose of this project is to explore the current conversations on the topic of diversity within the publishing industry and whether the conversation is making a connection between the lack of diversity in the workforce …
Life: Told By Death, Shannan Rivera
Life: Told By Death, Shannan Rivera
Master of Arts in Professional Writing Capstones
Life: Told by Death is the story of Sam, a reluctant reaper of souls who isn’t cut out for his fate. This novel follows him from his unwitting entrance into the life of a reaper to his struggle with his new existence and all the way through to his eventual escape into the afterlife.
Absinthe Makes The Heart Grow Darker, Jennifer Sarra
Absinthe Makes The Heart Grow Darker, Jennifer Sarra
Master of Arts in Professional Writing Capstones
This creative thesis consists of the first seven chapters of the novel, Absinthe Makes the Heart Grow Darker. Set in two time periods, 2017 and 1849, the plot centers around a newly renovated castle hotel in County Cork, Ireland. Newlyweds, Alicia and Greg Silvan discover a bottle of absinthe that is Spanish in origin. Alicia is haunted by the ghost of former owner, Keira O’Shea, as well as the disappearance of her father in hurricane Katrina. Alicia finds Keira’s handwritten journal and begins to read about Keira’s life and love and loss at the end of the Great Irish …