For this weekend’s assignment, I went through my past blog
posts to see what my “online voice” consisted of. The main thing I noticed was
my rhetoric. For the majority of my assignments I wrote like I would in any
other format, formally. However, as the posts progressed, I think my content
and language decreased because I got more familiar with the assignment and how
to write it. For all my posts, I would write them first in a word document to
detect any glaring syntax, spelling or grammatical mistakes. The word document
also allowed me to check how many words I included in my posts to meet all the
requirements the assignment called for. However, because I was able to express
my thoughts in a more free and informal matter, the content featured in my
posts were less concrete and structured. These can also be attributed to the
way the blog posts were constructed by Professor Downey, they often possessed
several ideas; some were connected, while others were not. The blog posts
allowed me to voice my opinion in a way that mimics how a conversation would
play out in our discussion classes. My true writing ability was not found in
these but the more formal assignments like the argumentative papers. Overall, I
think the blog posts show how I would typically respond and converse in a
discussion setting, the only difference is that in a physical face-to-face
setting my ideas would be more jumbled as I don’t have the luxury of a
backspace button to revise my ideas.
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