Blog # 1

I used to think I was good in writing until my first year of college. It was nothing like high school, teachers treated us like adults and they acted like humans themselves. These couple of weeks from English class have changed everything I used to know. There are many different categories we have to analyze when working on a paper. For example the point of the essay, the audience it's targeting and the stance of it. Whether you may just be writing a shopping list, a letter to a friend/family member or writing a 20 page essay for college, they all share the same goal; it is done for a purpose and to get a point across. From grade school to high school, our essays consisted of five paragraphs. Now I know it should be composed of three parts; intro, body, and conclusion in order to have our readers wanting more. These are not difficult aspects to keep in mind when writing our papers, they will only help un-wind and make it flow correctly. Another thing I was never taught was MLA Style. We were able to write what we found in books or research on the web with no worries. Now everything has to be cited, even the smallest ideas we borrow from other authors. I still find this difficult because there are occasions in which articles do not have an author or some have more than one. All this information is very helpful because I know this is only the beginning of a long journey!