Posts by Laura Yeager
How I Overcame Writers Block

by Laura Yeager

July 2014

Three years outside of breast cancer, I can look back on the experience and finally talk about it. Surprisingly, the worst part of cancer was not the chemo, not the double- mastectomy, not the six-weeks of radiation, but the writer's block.

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Make Your Writing Come Alive with Specific Details

by Laura Yeager

June 2014

I teach beginning writing to college freshman. It's the ole Freshman Composition routine.

There are several things I try to convey in a single semester, including how to organize an essay around a thesis statement; use the patterns of development to create paragraphs; organize paragraphs in the most productive,

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