Sunday, September 30, 2012

Reflection Question

                                    How writing on my blog has made me aware of my writing
                                                                      
                                                                          By: Cam Hall

           I have written for a public audience a number of times in my life. Writing for public audiences has allowed me to become a better writer by forcing me to take into consideration how my audience will respond to my writing, and the way that I present it. This has made me a more careful and skillful writer, therefore giving me the confidence that I can succeed with any piece of writing that I create if I just put enough of my time and effort into making quality pieces of writing, such as essays and research papers. I have become more observant over my writing by presenting it to public audiences and allowing it to be viewed in public locations. Writing for a public audience has made me more aware of my writing by allowing me to realize that it is essential for me to cite any information that is not in my own words and to write at the appropriate grade level that I am at.
          Writing for a public audience has made me aware of my writing by allowing me to realize that it is essential for me to cite any information that is not in my own words. If I take another person's words and claim them as my own in a piece of writing that I have created, then I am commiting a crime known as plagiarism. This is a serious crime that can lead to me suffering from major consequences as a result of not using my own words or by not citing the source as to where I got another person's words from, in my writing. In addition, not citing information in any piece of writing I create that I have taken from another source will cause my audience to believe that I made the words in the piece of information on my own and that I am being completely original with what I am saying. Based on these statements, I always make sure to write in my own words and cite some other person's words that I have taken from another source of some kind. If a writer cites information in a piece of writing that he or she composes that is not in his or her own words, then that writer will be able to travel further down the path of becoming a better writer in his or her life. In addition, this writer will be able to become more aware of his of her own writing by doing this.
         Writing for a public audience has made me aware of my writing by allowing me to realize that it is essential for me to write at the appropriate graden level that I am at. If I decide to write at an elementary school level in a piece of writing that I have made, I would most likely end up writing very short, unexplainatory sentences and not support what I am trying to point out in my work, at all. In doing this, my audience would get the impression that I am not a very skilled writer and think that I am still an amateur in the whole development of your writing skills process. In additon, this would cause my audience to not take me seriously as a writer and maybe even ignore my writing, with my audience not wanting to read an assignment that appears to have been made up by a little kid who is still at the early stages of becoming a good writer. Based on these statements, I always make sure to write at a professional level for my age and to make my sentences very explainatory and supportive to my papers as a whole, and other things, as well. If a person writes at the appropriate grade level that he or she is at for any piece of writing that he or she makes up, then that writer will be able to travel furhter down the path of becoming a better writer in his or her life, and be able to become more aware of his or her writing, as well.
        Making sure to cite information that is not in my own words and to write at an appropriate grade level of writing for myself on any piece of writing that I compose have allowed me to become more aware of my own writing. As people become older, they learn not to make simple mistakes when it comes to writing reports, essays, research papers, and other kinds of writing assignments.The more that people write for public audiences in their lives, the more familiar that they will become with what is expected of them as writers, depending on who they are, each individually. Professional writers, as well as other people, always carry about with themselves a sense or idead as to what the writing process encompasses is like and/or what it encompasses, and go from there, whenever they decide at a certain point to write something. In this kind of situation, it doesn't matter if they are writing for fun or if they are required to complete a specific kind of writing assignment as a task for the field of work that they are in. If all the people of the world keep in mind what makes any individual person a great writer, then it is not possible for anybody to not succeed at becoming a greatly-skilled writer who makes sure to be aware of his or her writing all of the time.

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