English 102 is a class that focuses on the student’s reading and writing skills and helps them to improve these skills, so that they can use them later in life as they began their careers. As students graduate from college and move onto their career choices, they need to have many different skills in order to find a good job that will allow them to achieve their goals in life and make their careers a success. Some of the skills they need to achieve this goals in life, would be reading and writing skills, and going to school and learning these skills is a must if a person wants to go anywhere in life. I have noticed that our English class has already improved my writing and reading skills in many ways, and in ways that will help me after I graduate from school and move on to be a Construction Manager. I also noticed that using blogger allows me to gain experience, by using a different style/way of writing on the blogs, compared to the traditional pencil and paper style of writing.
- Transition from traditional writing (on paper) to writing on a blog.
Going from writing with a pencil and paper or a computer and writing in a formal way, to using a blog as the main way of writing, has been a little different. Using blogger to write all of our research topics on for our class has been a little different from using the tradition style, because when we use blogger we just write towards a big audience (anybody who can access or blogs) so we really don’t write towards a specific person. Also, when we use blogger we just submit everything in an essay style/more informal format, whereas, when we use the traditional style of writing we could write in many different ways depending on our assignment and it’s more of a formal style of writing. Then when we finish our papers we, submit a hard copy unlike blogger when we just post it on our blogs.
-Write about your research—whether it was difficult or easy—changes you made in response to your challenges.
As I have done more and more research papers, I believe it has always stayed very difficult for me at the beginning, just because I have a very hard time figuring out what I want to do my research on and what the topic of my paper should be. But, as soon as I find a research topic, I have noticed that I can write a paper fairly easy because once I get an idea in my head I can just keep writing and forming other ideas in my head as I go. So, to help me with finding a topic for my research I noticed that if I brainstorm for a while and gather ideas for potential research papers, I can look up some of these topics and see which ones have the most/best information about them and will allow me to gather lots of information for my paper and I won’t get stuck and run out of information before I have finished my assignment.
I have also noticed that having the Discovery Center as the subject, that I base all of my research projects off of is fairly simple because the Discovery Center has lots of different things that go along with it, mostly all science related, but it still allows for a wide range of different topic ideas. So, this helps me in being able to find a good research topic that deals with the Discovery Center in some way.
-How does language change based on community?
I believe that language in one’s writing changes drastically, depending on their audience. When someone is writing on a topic that focuses more towards children and teens, they keep their writing language fairly simple and keep it easy to understand. So, when writing towards the audience of the Discovery Center, you will want to keep your writing simple, as mentioned before, because your audience ranges from young kids to teens that may not understand your writing if it is too complicated and is focused more towards an adult audience.
When writing, I think it’s very important for the writer (ourselves) to know our audience or community we are writing towards, because if we don’t we could potentially loose our readers because the information we have in our writing doesn’t pertain to our audience that our writing should focus on. So, it is a must for a writer to know their audience if they want to keep their readers interested in whatever is being written about.
-How had audience awareness changed your writing? (Writing for a non-academic as opposed to an exclusively academic audience)…
Knowing that our audience is really anybody who can access blogger really changed my writing, because I want to make my writing better so that I can keep my audience interested in my writing and so that I don’t sound/look like I don’t know how to write. So when you have an audience that could directly have an effect on you as a person, is very important to me, because if my writing is poor and doesn’t make sense or keep my audience interested, then it could potentially change way my audience looks at me as a person.
So, when we are writing more towards a non-academic audience, it directly effects my writing, because I am no longer just trying to win over a professor for a class, I am trying to gain interest with a much bigger audience and so I have to try to improve my writing so I can keep a variety of different readers interested in my writing and make sure that it makes sense to everyone who reads it no matter the age or knowledge level of that certain topic.
In conclusion, learning these different writing skills in English 102 is improving my communication skills in many different ways and hopefully will allow myself to become more experience with the different types of communication and will help me get a good job.
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