Transitions

I plan on using the story I described in my research paper as the foundation for my creative piece of literature. I will use Barry Bonds accusations in my creative writing. Using the reserach I did about this specific topic in my creative writing will provide for a very smooth transition between the two assignments. [...]

Outline of Creative Writing

Pulp Baseball: Home Run Ficiton I plan to use my research from my research paper to create the image and guidelines of the story of the main character and his struggle with steroids. I plan to use my personal experience with steroids to map out the outline of the story. How does steroids affect baseball [...]

Blog # 14

After reading In Cold Blood and completing my research paper, I believe that both will help assist in making this piece of creative writing very strong. Both displayed strong roots in research.  In Cold Blood was based almost soley on research, while my research paper took hours of research to learn about my topic. I [...]

Home Run Derby

The story of Todd and his involvment with his high school baseball team is based on factual information discovered through research.  Todd attends Cumberland Valley high school where he is a 17 year old junior. Todd is an average student and is the starting third baseman for the varsity baseball team.  Baseball can be a very [...]

How Does It Feel Now That The Majority of the Hard Work Is Done

It’s unbelievable to think that we have spent the whole semester up to this point formulating and constructing our research paper.  Looking back on all the exercises I did to prepare myself for this paper, I feel like they really helped me.  Without those helpful in class and blog exercises, I don’t know if my paper [...]