I intend to use this blog for two purposes. I want to learn how to become good at blogging. I like the idea of having somewhere to write my thoughts, especially about things like education, where future employers can see my writing style, or just get a look at my thoughts. Secondly, I want to practice journalistic writing. I like writing my thoughts, and what attracts me to journalism is that I can wrte my thoughts, in my own style, and people might want to read it and think it's intresting. I don't have much experience in journalism. I actually have none. I have never written anything that has been in a newspaper or anything like that. I've also never covered a beat before, but I am very excited about the one that I am going to cover now. I think that censorship is a very important topic, especially in education. I think that it is important for everyone to know what is being censored in schools, and why it is that way.
My strengths as a journalist would probably include, reading a lot of information before I form an opinion. I am very open minded and I like to know a lot of information about something before I form and opinion. I think that this is an especially important skill for a journalist to have. My weakness would definitely be not taking critisim well. I don't like when people tell me what is good and bad about my writing. This is something that I am working on getting over though.
I don't have much experience blogging. I think that my closest experience would be Facebook. Like most students, I am on Facebook atleast once a day, and I usually write many things on there. It scares me that people will have easy access to my writing and will be able to critique it at their convience. I think that I will learn how to be a better writer through this blogging experience. I also think that I will learn a lot about banned books, which will help me in my career path of secondary education.
Hi Brooke. This is an interesting subject...I look forward to reading your blogs.
ReplyDeleteCriticism isn't easy to hear. Don't know if this will help or not, but what I try to do (doesn't always work, I'll admit) is remember, especially if it's the instructor, is that the instructor is trying to help us be the best we can be. If it's others...I read it and see if I feel there is something I can learn. If not, oh well. They have the right to their views, just as I do. Have fun with this!
One aspect of banning books that baffles me is how they come to be banned. For instance take the book "Catcher in the Rye." That is a phenomenal book in my opinion, but it was banned in schools across the country because Mark David Chapman used it as an excuse for killing John Lennon. I am intrigued to find out your thoughts on this and other banned books in general.
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