I am always reading. By reading, I don\u2019t mean that I\u2019m simply reading my favorite Kurt Vonnegut book or articles about the Detroit Lions. I\u2019m reading advertisements, texts messages, quotes posted inside of high school classrooms, and 140 character tweets. These readings may seem diverse and disconnected, but they all have a common factor. They all seep with personality. When I read an advertisement, I can see the creativity that was built into it. When I read a text message, it reeks of emotion. When I look at a quote inside of a high school classroom, I know that it evolves into a larger story where I can usually find an allegorical meaning. Where I don\u2019t observe personality, is in most students\u2019 writing. Now hear me out before you jump to your keyboard and start conjuring counter arguments.<\/p>\n
In the past year, I\u2019ve taken a long hard look at the way I write. I\u2019ve realized that I\u2019m always writing for a specific audience. But wait, isn\u2019t that what you\u2019re supposed to do?<\/em> Yes, a wise folk tale told us all as young tykes to write for the audience that you expect to read your paper. What if we changed that narrative? What if I told it is wise to write for your audience, but you need to be mindful of including your personality in your paper? I\u2019m not talking about typing your name in the upper left hand corner. What if you wrote with a witty tone that matches your persona? Or used emotion to hammer down your point? Or self-reflected on the writing process itself in the paper your writing? (I\u2019m definitely using too many questions here). I\u2019m not advocating for creating a research paper with completely subjective thoughts or writing an informative essay where you\u2019ve discovered the information exclusively innately. I\u2019m asking you to consider your personality when you write a paper to create a sense of ownership in your writing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I am always reading. By reading, I don\u2019t mean that I\u2019m simply reading my favorite Kurt Vonnegut book or articles about the Detroit Lions. I\u2019m reading advertisements, texts messages, quotes posted inside of high school classrooms, and 140 character tweets. These readings may seem diverse and disconnected, but they all have a common factor. They […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":198,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-quick-tips"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=628"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":630,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628\/revisions\/630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}