EMILY KUCHMAN // December 12, 2015

In order to get to know me, my "Why I Write" piece is a good start. Written my first semester junior year, it explains some of my motivation in pursuing a minor in writing here at Michigan. The following description is from my gateway course ePortfolio.

 

I wrote this piece for it to be featured on this ePortfolio, hoping my vision of it aiding my audience in understanding a little bit more about me and why I write would ring true. I am joining an ongoing conversation that every writer must articulate in order for his/her reader to fully grasp where his/her argument stems from. Hopefully, after reading this my readers might be intrigued enough to keep perusing through my work! My challenge here came in the form of creating a new definition for myself. We all have a series of "I am ____" statements that together encompass our identity. Before writing this, I knew that I was a reader. And because of that, I am now a writer. I didn't know how to translate this into an effective "Why I Write" artifact. Yet, as always, by simply translating my thoughts onto paper (computer screen), I discovered more about myself and my motivations than I have in a while.