Final Blog Post

-What did you learn about writing and the news, or in what ways have your writing and news habits changed, through this course? Why do those changes matter? How might you apply that knowledge or those new habits in the future?

Throughout the course I learned that most writing is generally done as a response to another person's writing with the use of forwarding and countering the original writer's ideas and beliefs. Another useful thing I learned was that there are many different biases out there, especially on the internet where writers have the modern ability to reach their readers within seconds of finishing their piece of writing. I also realized that writing can be done in a large variety of tones. Prior to taking this writing course, I hadn't really engulfed myself into the world of current events. Since it is a requirement in this class to keep up with things that are going on in the news I started making a habit of going through multiple news sites daily. I wanted to have a broad range of news sites to check up on regularly regarding their styles so I chose the New York Times, the Onion, the Huffington Post, and Freakonomics. After completing the largest amount of writing I have ever done in a period of 10 weeks and keeping up with current events, I truly feel that my writing and news habits have changed for the better. At the beginning of the quarter I had a lot of trouble with writing since my school did not provide enough writing teaching in my opinion. With my newfound writing abilities I will have the freedom and ease to supply a much more sophisticated outlook on writing pieces for my future courses.