From Middletown to the Olympic host city

Abstract

Last summer, I had the privilege of participating in Ball State at the Games, an immersive-learning project. Through this project, 40 Ball State students traveled to London to provide behind-the-scenes coverage of the London 2012 Summer Olympic Games. In my thesis, I analyze three long-form stories I wrote during the course of my Ball State at the Games experience and reflect on my personal and professional growth. I also discuss six writing "tools" from Roy Peter Clark's Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer and how I incorporated those tools into my long-form stories.