Blog #8

A few things that I learned in this class, is express my opinions and explain how I feel when writing any papers and assignments. I learned how to fill in the space with new information, old information. Without learning the new old information technique I probably would get stuck writing every paper this year because I would always be blank minded trying to find out extra things to write so I can have a 2 page essay to turn in. another thing that I learned in class that I find really helpful for writing is the TS/CD. At first I struggled with it every time but after a while I finally got it. What I like about the TS/CD is that when you have each sentence done properly it turns out to be your paragraph. I also like the fact that it’s easy to remember and I won’t forget how to do them.

The more essays that we had to write I slowly started to understand how to gain an audience’s attention depending on the topic of the writing assignment. What I realized is that you can’t just pick a topic and start writing about it, because then it becomes a boring paper with nothing but facts. In order to really grab the reader’s attention I have to take the topic and make it something that people can connect to, like talking about experiences or current events.

Even though a topic is given when writing essays, it’s the writers job to make the paper interesting, and that’s when writing becomes a means of self-discovery because everything written is the authors opinions and expressed feelings that they have decided to share. That’s what makes writing interesting. Most of the time writing is the one time people don’t get told “don’t do this, don’t do that” and “don’t say this, don’t say that”, writing has no limits and that’s what’s so good about it.

An important thing I learned is how important learning how to write is, especially for our future careers. Without learning how to write there isn’t too much that a person can do. If you own your own business you have to know how to write to you can send out proposals to people, and you would have to know how to communicate with your employees other colleagues besides face to face and over the phone. Even wanting to have a career in the music industry you still have to know how to write so singers can have words to sing to. So even though people in school don’t think it’s that important, they will soon realize that it is, and where every people go we will always have to write something.