Class Blog: Elizabeth Vazhenin

      I have learned about many interesting and very helpful writing tools this semester. I have learned about the power of a persuasive argument, how to directly talk to a reader and my audience in order to prove my point, how to use different sources in order to definitively show my reader that I understand to the fullest extent the topic I am writing about. My favorite tool that I've learned this semester is that writing in the first person is not completely unacademical. I believe that the least important topic that we have discussed in class is not shouting while writing essays. I think this because, in my experience, I have always monitored my tone and not had any problems with shouting through my text.

      High School academic writing and collegiate academic writing definitely differ in many ways, to say the least. In high school, teachers prepare you for college writing but they mostly only teach you the basics like how to format your essays and the general idea of correct grammar usage. I actually found it very interesting how much different college professors take your writing, especially when you come straight out of high school. Professors expect you to have all the knowledge already going into college but they don't stray away from giving you all the possible resources you need to help you. College academic writing is much for intricate in so many ways, but it opens up so many more opportunities and allows for so many more advances in your future careers.