Tag: writing
In conversation with Shalini Nanayakkara
Shalini Nanayakkara
has been writing since she was eleven-years-old and self-published her fantasy
novel The Time has Come when she was twelve-years-old.
During her undergraduate
studies at...
Insight into Features:
Kevin Kim, Associate Features Editor
As a fresh, bright-eyed student at UTM much like so many
others, my first year has been a whirlwind of great...
Does drawing improve your memory?
For a university student, a heightened memory is a valuable skill to have since success in most courses is largely dependent on the student’s...
Words from a photojournalist turned writer
I’ve been at this newspaper for two years now and I’ve never written once for this paper. My job as the photo editor is...
Going digital with woes: the modern-day diary
The ability to document every moment is a tool unique to the lives of millennials. While our parents may have written about their day...
Making waves
This year’s Mindwaves editorial team received over 150 pages of submissions from students of different academic backgrounds
Mindwaves paves the way for non-fiction prose
Mindwaves collects, edits, and publishes the best of UTM’s non-fiction writing.
Language is everything
As a linguistics student, a new member of LSAS, an editor, and a wannabe writer, I’ve come to appreciate just how pervasive, how everywhere...
Positive writing makes me mad
Businesses want to make you happy. Happy people, to put it bluntly, spend more and question less. There’s nothing wrong with that goal at...
Blogging: living life one hit at a time
Before I start, I’m going to take a wild guess that you have—or have had—a personal blog where all you did was post whatever...
The grammar wars
Views on English grammar are as numerous as the rules they comment on. Lynne Truss of Eats Shoots and Leaves sees it as a...
A different kind of work ethic
It’s close to midnight as I type these lines. I should've finished my editorial a while ago, days ago actually. Tha’ts what happened the...