How do you write about research without sounding stuffy? How do you make facts come across as engaging material that flow in and out of your essay? With this blog, I want you practice just that, taking a piece of research relevant to your personal essay's topic and working to blend it smoothly with the voice you're writing from. First, you must adopt that voice in which you'll speak from for your personal essay. Get a good grip on that, then see how transparent you can make your research, almost to the point that we don't realize we're reading research, but just hearing a storyteller giving us interesting facts to consider. Reread "On Pests" for examples of how her language, how her sentence style, is uninterrupted by facts on mining bees, for instance. Consider how you might paraphrase or use parts of quotes to bring facts in consistently with your voice.
So, you're not writing a scene here necessarily, but a paragraph or two that uses your writing style to incorporate research into your paragraphs in a seamless way.
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