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**Writer's Profile:** written by Bryn Beyer
====Marissa is a writer. Marissa began to write in school. The more she learned how to write, the more she enjoyed it. When writing for school, she writes her work at school but when writing for fun, Marissa prefers to be laying on her bed. She believes that authors, including herself, are inspired by their personal experiences as well as things they are passionate about. Marissa enjoys writing stories, writing about herself, and writing stories about herself. To create a story, she takes ideas and then sorts them out until they make sense. If she does not understand the topic, then writing is hard for her, but when Marissa likes the topic, then her writing can be pretty good. She believes that you must keep the story interesting and write about what interests your readers in order to capture an audience. Marissa thinks that a good writer should be able to "pull the reader into a story and make them feel a part of it". Her perceptions of why people write are that they want to tell a story, explain something, escape, vent, communicate, and sometimes simply for fun.====

**Reader's Profile:** written by Kati Bailey
====Marissa is a reader. She feels that people read because they want to learn more about stuff they like, understand things they don’t know, and because they enjoy the activity. Marissa reads because she likes stories and she always has. Marissa remembers being very little and being told she read too much. Especially at night when “I would want to finish stories and my mom wouldn’t let me". Of all the genres of stories, Marissa likes them all, except she cannot stand fantasy stories. Patience and endurance are characteristics of a good reader as defined by Marissa. She defines a good reader as somebody who “is interested in many things and wont give up on a book “even if it’s not something they enjoy reading.” Marissa learns more about things that happen in the past, characters, and people when she reads. She gets most of her books from the library; she “finds something that looks interesting and picks it out .” Marissa reads often and turns to reading to distract her. She likes seeing how stories end. In conclusion, Marissa is a reader. ====

**Assignments:**
[| Mini paper 1]Good Night and Good Luck: Topic 1 [|A Horse is Poetry in Motion] - Two, Iron Rod