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Third quarter was all about "The Art of the Essay" and is a compilation of a total of six different kinds of essays.

Quarter 3

The first piece is a textual analysis essay, and it's analyzing The Overprotected Kid by Hanna Rosin. The printed and annotates version of this article (which I scanned into the computer) can be found to the right of my essay.

This is a 100-Word Rant, a genre my high school often used. The point is to get the message across in exactly 100 words. In this Rant, I'm explaining the difference between the author and the narrator of a story.

The writing prompt for this essay was to explain something about how I write, or why writing is important to me.

The full title of this is really American Society for the Promotion of Animal Cruelty. It's a mini-commentary essay about why I am against the practices of the ASPCA.

This is a photo essay. The goal was to have an essay that could stand apart from the photo, but have a connection of sorts to the photo that strengthened the essay when it was present.

This commentary essay idea was sparked by the constant insistence from my younger brother than I just have to have a boyfriend in high school, and I'm basically refuting the mindset that says people have to have a significant other in high school.

Baby Bio:

 

Sayle Owen

 

Age 18

 

High School Senior

 

An Aspiring Writer

 

A Proud Mormon Girl

 

From the lower penisula of Michigan (you know, that state shaped like a glove in the U.S. of A.?)

Disclaimer:

Unless I specifically say otherwise, all pieces and pictures on this site are either a school assignment, a picture I have personally taken, a product of my own imagination, or labeled as "free to use, share or modify, even commercially" and do not have copyright attached to them.

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Hello! My name is Sayle, and I created this website back in my freshman year of high school as a place to put my writing, specifically the pieces I've written for school. I've wanted to be a novelist since second grade, and I've been a huge book-lover since before kindergarten. As of November 2016, I completed the first draft of my first novel. I'm currently working on the sequel, as well as several side stories featuring minor characters from the original novel. I hope to be able to get my extended universe, known comprehensively as The Elemental Spiral, published, or on it's way to being published, after I graduate high school. In total, I've written four books, two novels and two novellas, in addition to various shorter pieces.

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