They include a wide variety of genres ranging from poetry analysis essays of James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and abstracts on epilepsy research projects to my own Shakespearean (or should I say, Santamarian) sonnets and elegant e-mails to a girlfriend. ... I entered my first writing contest in the second grade. The elementary school sponsored a children's book contest every year, in which teachers encouraged students from second grade and up to write, illustrate and bind a children's book. Three students from each entering grade could win, and all books wer...

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