Examining Our Blogs
One of the primary purposes of our last blog assignment, which involved evaluating audience and purpose, was to make sure you are making conscious decisions about your writing style. Some of you, like PunchDrunkLove, are determined not to cave to pressures of language conventions:
My blogs are more for teenagers to read because it has up to date phrases and I’m not so concerned about puncuation and all that jazz.
I’d add spelling to the list too, but that’s not my point. My point is more that we must understand the difference between one audience and another. The Declaration of Independence is about the most formal document we could ever read – written to announce the cessation of a colony from its parent nation. LemurLover explains as well as I could how occasion and purpose change the tone of the writing itself:
[The Declaration] was written to state the general ideas and beliefs of the new nation. It was written for Britain and the continental congress, so they would understand what was happening and how things were going to be run. Since this was a legal document and not just a letter, it had to be written more formally; more cold than friendly.
But that’s not all with these blogs. They have more purpose than just to babble to each other and to me as your teacher. I hope that these will make us better thinkers – people who can articulate our ideas and interact with one another. It’s explained best by SparkyGirl16:
I also write them in a way of explaining them to myself and helping myself understand the meaning of what we are writing about. The appropriate writing style of these blogs, I think are more of a do your own thing. Not slacking off, but more of its the persons who is writing it kind of style. I like my style of writing because I just say what is on my mind, and then see if people comment me to see if thats what they were thinking too.
When you finish reading through these, please jump to the survey posting from last class, where I ask you to read the strong blogging from the last assignment on The Old Man and the Sea.
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