The blog post assignment regarding the
Proust Excerpt was not easy for me. Besides the article’s complexity, I find it
hard to just free write something without a given topic. Since I perceive the
excerpt as a writing in conversational style, I try to mimic its style while
writing my blog post. For example, I wrote:
No wonder why British people are so passionate and devoted to their afternoon tea tradition. I think, perhaps in a busy workday, a cup of British tea with delicate pastries brings them a transient but soothing joy and helps them to maintain positive mentality as well as high efficiency at work.
Considering our course topic, “food, film,
and feeling”, I chose to write about my feeling related to some elements in
Proust’s article. Then I found that to convey my feeling well is kind of
challenging. I was much more adapted to write in academic or formal style,
hence, using colloquial style in conveying my feeling was not easy. I think, in
the future, I need to work on improving my writing in different styles and be
accustomed to free write assignments.
Evaluating my writing from the standpoints
of course outcomes, I realize that I forget to consider and decide my audience.
When I started this blog post, I was not targeting to a specific group of
audience, and I just wrote whatever I thought worth writing. In retrospection,
I think if I had chosen a target audience, my writing would be more consistent
and effective. An aspect which I think I did a relatively good job in is that I
evaluated author’s opinion and compared that to mine. Though I kind of mistaken
some key points in his article, I addressed my views on some of the points he
made.
In conclusion, I think I need more practice
on writing in conversational style and I need to write in a more systematic way
which involves considering audience, genres, and rhetoric.
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