Writing Samples
This page contains writing samples of several different kinds. I have included my published works from Plant Blacksburg, a student run news website here at Virginia Tech. I have also put papers and proposals I have written for several classes. All files will open as a PDF when clicked.
- PlanetBlacksburg Articles-All of these artilces are published on the PlanetBlacksburg website. All of the following articles except for the National Leauge West Preview are about the Virginia Tech Softball Team.
- Softball Game Advancer-A preseason story done on the Virginia Tech softball team. Includes interviews and a profile of the team.
- Boston College Game-Recap of the Virginia Tech/Boston College softball game
- Campbell Game-Recap of the Virginia Tech/Campbell softball game
- Florida State Game-Recap of the Virginia Tech/Florida State softball game
- Furman Game-Recap of the Virginia Tech/Furman softball game
- Georgia Tech-Recap of the Virginia Tech/Georgia Tech game
- Tiger Invitational-Recap of the Virginia Tech softball team's preformance in the Tiger Invitational Tournament
- Maryland Game-Recap of the Virginia Tech/Maryland softball game
- University of Virginia Game-Recap of the Virginia Tech/University of Virginia softball game
- University of South Carolina Game-Recap of the Virginia Tech/University of South Carolina softball game
- Radford Game-Recap of the Virginia Tech/Radford softball game
- National Leage West Preview-This is a preview of the National Leauge West for the 2007 baseball season
- Papers
- JetBlue For my Issues Management in Public Relations class we had to find a company that had a PR issue and research the issue. We then had to discuss how the company dealt with the issues and if it was successful. This is the paperI wrote inwhich Itook a look at the JetBlue Airlines tarmac crisis and how it was handled from a public relations standpoint
- EthnographyThis paper is an ethnography of my speaking. The paper details how it is I speak on a daily basis and how I often do not realize the small things in my speech.
- Classroom EthnographyThis is a classroom ethnography of speaking that I wrote. It is like the ethnography of my speech, just on a classroom level.
- Mad Dog ArticleThis is a feature article I wrote for Media Writing about a boutique in downtown Blacksburg
- Magazine ArticleThis is a magazine article about Smith Mountain Lake that I wrote in Professional Writing
- Query LetterThis is the query letter I wrote to go along with the magazine article
- ProposalThis is the proposal I wrote for the magazine article