Hello All! Or should I say ‘Goodbye All’… I’m sad to say that this post concludes my CTW Writing Portfolio blog. Throughout this course I have posted a variety of things ranging from research advice, my personal opinion on various learning techniques and, of course, numerous updates on my research project.
Persoanally, I’m very sad to say goodbye to the luxuries of “blog writing,” and the ability to write, well, the way I want to. Like I’ve mentioned in previous posts, I tend to write exactly how I talk and have taken immense pleasure in the ability to turn in such casual writing. In contrast to academic writing, which takes a lot of time and effort, this
blog allowed me express all the opinions I wanted in a relaxed, easy to read format.
Additionally, I loved the fact that our blog posts could incorporate things other than words. Finding little visuals to add to my posts not only made my opinions feel more interesting but I think they often helped me get my point across. Building off that, the ability to add graphs to my posts centered around my research project was extremely useful.
It was these small multimodal components that helped translate to my multimodal presentation. Throughout this course we have stressed the importance of visuals and alternative platforms for our arguments. That being said I was able to come up with a variety of formats for my presentation, that would express technologies effect on social pressures/standards in an entirely unique way from my essay.
All in all I think keeping this blog has been a very interesting experience and really opened my eyes up to different types of writing. I think it is useful in many ways, including that, for those of us who aren’t english majors, this is a much more prevalent writing style post graduation. Additionally, it has been nice to have a platform to express my opinions and feel like they have a chance of being seen by others out there who care about similar things.
Alright well goodbye for now everyone! I hope you’ve enjoyed!
