Abstract
Mark is an IT Major who lives in Boston, Massachusetts. Mark credits his parents for his life-long love of reading, and at a young age he loved writers, like J.R.R. Tolkien and R.A. Salvatore, who “in addition to having abbreviations for their first names, share an affinity for spending pages and pages describing the visuals in their books.” Mark is an Army veteran with nine years of service, and he has spent most of his adult life writing as a Counterintelligence Agent for the US Army, employing his meticulous style into his written work. In this essay for his Composition I class, Mark was asked to write more creatively than he had in the past, and it enabled him to revitalize his love of writing and his desire to “include my own unique voice in my writing.” Mark has lived in 8 different states and 4 different countries while serving in the Army over the last decade, but he has deep roots in New England and hopes to settle down here after finishing his degree.
Recommended Citation
Ballou, Mark
(2026)
"There and Back Again: A Writer's Tale, by a Repeat Student,"
Undercurrents: A Journal of Undergraduate Student Composition: Vol. 1:
Iss.
1, Article 2.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.umb.edu/undercurrents/vol1/iss1/2
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