Monday, February 4, 2013

Christoffersen Style

I have never thought that everyone has there own style and that our own style is what can make a paper unique. I have always thought that everyone was trying to develop the right way to wright a paper, and that this way was the only. But after thinking about it i realize that if there was just one style, then reading would be very boring. The style that i use when i wright is usually emotional, backed up with facts, and with something that can help the audience relate. I believe that this helps the reader understand, enjoy and agree with what i write. But what my writing style doesn't include but my personality does is humor. I am not very good at writing humorously. I feel like being funny a lot of the times is on the spot. But knowing this makes me wonder how well being funny can help you in a paper. The style that i use also doesn't have to do much with big and fancy words (losing half of your vocabulary because of learning spanish doesn't help either). But rather the words that i usually use in my every day life. Because of high school i always thought that the papers that received good scores were those with words that have to be looked up in the dictionary to understand. One  of the things that i would like to improve on in my style is being able to create a better flow with in my paper. This includes from paragraph to paragraph and from sentence to sentence. The second area that i want to improve in my writing is being able to organize my information in a better way.

4 comments:

  1. I also used to think that big words to key to good writing. However, when big words are superfluous, used incorrectly, or are overly abundant they distract rather than add meaning to the paper--so be careful! And I leave it up to you to decide if "superfluous" was superfluous in this situation :)

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  2. That is exactly how I felt about writing before as well. I thought we all had to get to the point when we could write "correctly" and that there was a formula to it. The point you made is valid though; if it was all uniform, reading would be boring. Sometimes it already is so it's good we all have style.

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  3. I agree with the rest that writing can't follow a forced style. I think its easy when writing for a school assignment to try and follow a formula to just try and get a good grade, which I think happens way too often.

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  4. I can relate to two of the things you addressed, which were struggling to include personal humor in your writing and struggling to include upper-level vocabulary in your writing. I hope to work on this during the semester, but I also think that it is important not to force these things into your writing.

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