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Writing as History

I wrote this piece mid-way through my ASU program. The class was Methods/Issues of Teaching Composition. This was a required class and even though I never planned on teaching, taking the class gave me an understanding of what it is like to draw up lesson plans and teach, further cementing the knowledge that I would […]

Character Study

Another assignment I had in Devoney Looser’s class on Jane Austen was that of examining a minor character and writing about that character. This was an assignment that I thought I wouldn’t be able to get a full paper out of then surprised myself by finding Austen’s minor characters were created with such meaning. I […]

“Fortune” Transactions and Chance in Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility

Gina Ruiz Professor Devoney Looser ENG 535 29 April 2023 This was an essay I wrote in Professor Looser’s class. The assignment was to take a word from a Jane Austen novel we were studying and truly examine it. I loved this assignment and got a lot more out of it than I thought I […]

Research Methods

A required course in the ASU English M.A., Approaches to Research, is an overview of research methods in English Studies with an emphasis on contemporary approaches to research and scholarship within English and the humanities. I loved learning about the different methods of research and really loved putting together my research proposal for the final […]

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