| I have excellent editing and writing skills, and am an excellent communicator and teacher. I am well versed in both MLA and APA style. |
| I took five semesters of Advanced Creative Writing with Lincoln Memorial University's Writer-in-Residence Darnell Arnoult. I made consistently high A's in Creative Non-Fiction as well as Fiction. |
| I have a bachelors degree in English from Lincoln Memorial University. I recieved a 3.486 GPA with a 3.9 within my major. I never made anything below an A in any English class, no matter how challenging. |
| I have not had a grammatical error on a paper since I began upper level English courses. |
| I worked as a lead news reporter for The Volunteer Times for a year, but have no formal collegiate Journalism training. |
| I have a strong passion for literature. I scored in the top 90th percentile on the Kapstone senior exit exam for Literature. I am proficient in areas from Chaucer and the middle ages, to Shakespeare, early to contemporary British Literature. My area of special interest is American Literature. I am extremely well read in Southern and Appalachian Literature as well as American Literature from the 1930s. |
| I made an A in a reading/writing intensive Shakespeare course at Lincoln Memorial University. |