Final Blog Musings

Writing in a blog every week has definitely changed my perspective on writing both academically and recreationally. This class has helped me to broaden my audience. It has helped me to see that it is possible to communicate with people outside of my family and my friends. I think that that is the most useful part of this class: the ability to recognize the ideas of others and to be willing to share your own. I think that this will definitely be applicable to life beyond writing courses in college. Especially with politics and current events, I think that I will be more open to discussion. This is a very important tool to have if you want to be involved with what is going on in the world. I also find this course very interesting because it added a new concept to what I know about writing. In school we always learned about making sure you don’t plagiarize and ethics behind it, but we were never given a way to rewrite something. I think that this is a very important skill to have, especially in school. Reading Harris’s book gave me a new perspective on writing using the works of other writers.  I think that I am better able to contribute to ideas and put my own spin on them because I now have the tools to make my “rewriting” interesting and effective. This class was very interesting overall and I think that it has given me new ways of thinking that will benefit my writing in the future.