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Abstract

Brian Coughlin is a biology major from Melrose, MA. He believes that “everyone has the capacity to write something beautiful, but so many people are turned off of it because they think of some boring English essay they had to write about The Catcher in the Rye in eleventh grade.” Brian’s goal in this essay is to show that writing is “so much more than cracking open a thesaurus to impress your teacher.” This piece of writing is important to Brian because it was one of the first essays he wrote while trying to break away from the conventional writing standards. While writing, Brian says, “it felt ‘wrong’ to use more casual language because it didn’t FEEL academic. But I figured why not? If my points are all there, and the reader can understand them, why dress up as some scholar?” By developing a unique writing voice in his composition classes, Brian feels that he is now able to increase his presence in all types of writing. He is also relentlessly passionate about drawing and animals, and believes that drawing, like writing, is a fantastic outlet that “allows you to make something out of nothing that contains a style that just can’t be 100% replicated.”

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