During the process of maintaining and writing this blog, I can feel a stronger connection between the relationship of my blog writing, to that of my academic writing. The styles of both are, of course, not exactly similar to one another. They are after all produced on very different mediums (one is on a blog for audiences online, while the other is on paper for my Professor). However, I can feel myself growing more comfortable with incorporating my own voice into my academic writing, simply because I’ve been practicing so much of that on this blog. Though my academic writing is much more formal and structured in style, the principle of putting the writer’s point of view into whatever she writes should stay nonetheless true.
More similar to blog-style writing than other writing assignments was the multimodal essay. This essay was perhaps the most natural to write because it felt as though I was writing another blog post, reflecting on my process of designing my multimodal project and discussing my thoughts about certain parts of the process.
It is not just blogging, however, that has improved my overall writing. My practice in writing so many rhetorical essays has in turn also informed my blog writing, as I can see myself incorporating certain more “formal” or “sophisticated” elements once in a while into certain posts, such as word choice or structural choices.
Overall, I can see how running this blog while continuing to write rhetorical essays throughout the quarter are all assignments that work well together in that they mutually improve my writing abilities in both sectors. Though the modes and audiences to whom I write are vastly different, certain principles and aspects of my writing remain consistent throughout all of the assignments, such as the voice and sophistication that I am able to present in my writing.
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