Mariel wrote this paper midway through her “Race, Class, and Gender in the U.S. Today” WR 100 seminar for multilingual students in Spring 2018. Like all WR 120 classes, this section of WR 100 invited students to write in a genre other than the standard academic essay for a portion of the course. Our class studied Op-Eds, the short-essay form of opinion writing common in newspapers, and then students chose their own topics related to the overall themes of the class. Mariel circled around and around her topic at first, not sure where she wanted to go with it, not sure exactly what she wanted to say. She had a lot of fun experimenting with voice in this paper, and I think you can see from this final product that she both found a strong, appealing Op-Ed voice and also found what she really wanted to say.
— CHRISTINA MICHAUD
WR 100: Race, Class, and Gender in the US Today