{"id":9505,"date":"2019-09-03T09:13:59","date_gmt":"2019-09-03T13:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=9505"},"modified":"2019-09-03T13:52:33","modified_gmt":"2019-09-03T17:52:33","slug":"i-dont-know-if-i-should-continue-being-an-english-major-or-not-dont-want-to-analyze-texts-want-to-write-on-my-own","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2019\/09\/03\/i-dont-know-if-i-should-continue-being-an-english-major-or-not-dont-want-to-analyze-texts-want-to-write-on-my-own\/","title":{"rendered":"I don&#8217;t know if I should continue being an English major or not. Don&#8217;t want to analyze texts. Want to write on my own."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"308\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/090219-3.jpg\" alt=\"I don't know if I should continue being an English major or not. Don't want to analyze texts. Want to write on my own.\" class=\"wp-image-9502\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/090219-3.jpg 320w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/090219-3-300x289.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><figcaption>I don&#8217;t know if I should continue being an English major or not. Don&#8217;t want to analyze texts. Want to write on my own.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Consider a creative writing concentration? <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/bc-creative-writing\">bit.ly\/bc-creative-writing<\/a> Also: talk to prof&#8217;s about how to use text analysis in ways that will serve your own writing. If those conversations are unproductive and\/or the creative writing concentration isn&#8217;t for you, then talk to your advisor (&amp; others) about another major.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consider a creative writing concentration? bit.ly\/bc-creative-writing Also: talk to prof&#8217;s about how to use text analysis in ways that will serve your own writing. If those conversations are unproductive and\/or the creative writing concentration isn&#8217;t for you, then talk to your advisor (&amp; others) about another major.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,18],"tags":[718],"class_list":["post-9505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics","category-life-career","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9505"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9512,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9505\/revisions\/9512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}