Black Fingernails and the White Page: The High School Writing Center

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dc.creatorFiesthumel, Brooke
dc.date.accessioned2017-10-18T16:39:01Z
dc.date.available2017-10-18T16:39:01Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.descriptionIn walks a blonde-haired, hooded student to the Blacksburg High School Writing Center. She has brought a personal narrative to share and work on with me, an intern from Virginia Tech. She sits next to me, flips her hair and pleads, “I just can’t figure out the ending.” Reassuringly, I state that we will start from the beginning, work through the paper and hopefully figure out an answer to her writing concerns. As she begins to read, I hit a roadblock. Her narrative is gripping, heart-wrenching, and extremely personal. I am caught off guard by the raw, emotive power coming from the tiny frame next to me. As she speaks about her parent’s divorce, her lost faith in God, her lost faith in humanity, and her newfound philosophy on life, I question what to do or say.en_US
dc.description.departmentUniversity Writing Centeren_US
dc.identifierdoi:10.15781/T2CC0V90N
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2152/62140
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.relation.ispartofPraxis: A Writing Center Journalen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesPraxis: A Writing Center Journal;Vol 10, No 1
dc.rights.restrictionOpenen_US
dc.subjectBrooke Fiesthumelen_US
dc.subjectBlack fingernailsen_US
dc.subjectWhite Pageen_US
dc.subjecthigh schoolen_US
dc.titleBlack Fingernails and the White Page: The High School Writing Centeren_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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