In my first year of college, I knew I was going to declare English as my major. I was the student who couldn't wait to get to the campus bookstore to buy the many books I would have to read each semester. And of course, I couldn't just read all of those wonderful books; I had to write about them. I remember sitting down to write my first college-level, 10-page paper on The Iliad.Let's just say my first draft wasn't a winner. My professor for that class taught me a valuable lesson about writing [...]
