Self Evaluation
1. List your personal strengths and weaknesses.
- Strengths: Logical, level-headed, observant, creative
- Weaknesses: procrastinator
2. List important or related courses you have taken.
College Composition (I and II)
Creative Writing (I and II)
Linguistics
The Writer’s Mind
Journalistic Writing
Writing Poetry
Writing, Research, and Technology
Magazine Article Writing
Writing Children’s Stories
Writing with Style
Film Scenario Writing
Writing Fiction
3. What is your major and specialization, overall cumulative GPA? How many credits have you taken in your major?
- Major: Writing Arts
- GPA: 3.450
- Credits: 103
4. Do you have a minor or coordinate major? Explain.
- Coordinate Major: Philosophy/Religion (specializing in Religious Studies)
5. List hobbies, activities, interests, especially those related to your major.
- Activities
reading fiction
writing short fiction/poetry
6. List all the offices you have held in clubs or writing associations.
7. Do you hold any special licenses?
8. List special skills. Have you served in the military? Have you ever published? What computer programs are you skilled in?
- Published: Avant, Rowan Univ. undergraduate Magazine
+ Fall 2010 issue
2 poems (“Twisted,” “Russian Winter”)
2 short stories (“Happy Holidays,” “Broken”)
+ Spring 2011 issue
1 flash fiction (“Tell Me”)
+ Fall 2011 issue
1 poem (“Sailing to the Moon”)
- Concert band (clarinet)
9 years (grades 4-12)
- Marching band (clarinet)
4 years (grade 9-12)
9. List the types of writing you do the most.
- Short fiction
- Poetry
- Genres: horror, fantasy
10. List awards, honors, academic or otherwise.
- Academic Achievement
National Junior Honor Society
- High School Marching Band
Most Improved Freshman
- High School Concert Band
First Chair (senior year)
11. List special programs in which you have participated.
- Girl Scouts
12. List charity work.
- E.H.T Community Pride Day (annual roadside trash clean up)
13. List any scholarships you have received.
14. List key projects and roles you have played in them.
15. List all jobs you have had (dates, length if employment, promotions, responsibilities, title, etc.
- Summer job: Boscov’s
Since summer 2009
Annual "Tent Sale"
Responsibilities
Cashier
Straighten/stock shelves
Vacuum rain water
16. Describe the kinds of employment you seek (rank order of your top three job goals)
- Write/publish fiction
- Write/publish non-fiction
magazine articles
newspaper articles
- Freelance book reviewer
17. List three people who can recommend you and how you have been associated with them.
- Martin Itzkowitz, professor (Rowan Univ., Writing Arts Dept.)
+ Writing with Style (creative non-fiction)
- Drew Kopp, professor (Rowan Univ, Writing Arts Dept.)
+ College Composition II
+ Evaluating Writing
- Jonathan Mason, assistant professor (Rowan Univ., Radio/TV/Film Dept.)
+ Film Scenario Writing (creative fiction)
1. List your personal strengths and weaknesses.
- Strengths: Logical, level-headed, observant, creative
- Weaknesses: procrastinator
2. List important or related courses you have taken.
College Composition (I and II)
Creative Writing (I and II)
Linguistics
The Writer’s Mind
Journalistic Writing
Writing Poetry
Writing, Research, and Technology
Magazine Article Writing
Writing Children’s Stories
Writing with Style
Film Scenario Writing
Writing Fiction
3. What is your major and specialization, overall cumulative GPA? How many credits have you taken in your major?
- Major: Writing Arts
- GPA: 3.450
- Credits: 103
4. Do you have a minor or coordinate major? Explain.
- Coordinate Major: Philosophy/Religion (specializing in Religious Studies)
5. List hobbies, activities, interests, especially those related to your major.
- Activities
reading fiction
writing short fiction/poetry
6. List all the offices you have held in clubs or writing associations.
7. Do you hold any special licenses?
8. List special skills. Have you served in the military? Have you ever published? What computer programs are you skilled in?
- Published: Avant, Rowan Univ. undergraduate Magazine
+ Fall 2010 issue
2 poems (“Twisted,” “Russian Winter”)
2 short stories (“Happy Holidays,” “Broken”)
+ Spring 2011 issue
1 flash fiction (“Tell Me”)
+ Fall 2011 issue
1 poem (“Sailing to the Moon”)
- Concert band (clarinet)
9 years (grades 4-12)
- Marching band (clarinet)
4 years (grade 9-12)
9. List the types of writing you do the most.
- Short fiction
- Poetry
- Genres: horror, fantasy
10. List awards, honors, academic or otherwise.
- Academic Achievement
National Junior Honor Society
- High School Marching Band
Most Improved Freshman
- High School Concert Band
First Chair (senior year)
11. List special programs in which you have participated.
- Girl Scouts
12. List charity work.
- E.H.T Community Pride Day (annual roadside trash clean up)
13. List any scholarships you have received.
14. List key projects and roles you have played in them.
15. List all jobs you have had (dates, length if employment, promotions, responsibilities, title, etc.
- Summer job: Boscov’s
Since summer 2009
Annual "Tent Sale"
Responsibilities
Cashier
Straighten/stock shelves
Vacuum rain water
16. Describe the kinds of employment you seek (rank order of your top three job goals)
- Write/publish fiction
- Write/publish non-fiction
magazine articles
newspaper articles
- Freelance book reviewer
17. List three people who can recommend you and how you have been associated with them.
- Martin Itzkowitz, professor (Rowan Univ., Writing Arts Dept.)
+ Writing with Style (creative non-fiction)
- Drew Kopp, professor (Rowan Univ, Writing Arts Dept.)
+ College Composition II
+ Evaluating Writing
- Jonathan Mason, assistant professor (Rowan Univ., Radio/TV/Film Dept.)
+ Film Scenario Writing (creative fiction)
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