A Motivational Guest Speaker

In Writing 12, Marissa Tiel the editor of the local newspaper, The Revelstoke Times-Review, came to speak to us about what her job was like.  We learned about her training and experience, but more importantly, she taught us about literary journalism which seemed to really inspire some people.  It made technical writing seem less dry. We will use these ideas for our class project. 

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