Blog Post 2: Web 2.0 Video

There has been an astounding change with the way we communicate now, and this video really captured the essence of the changes. The purpose of this video was to make the viewers, or audience, more away of the changes that have occurred just by the use of computers. As users, we can now add so much to our papers, projects, blogs, etc. Take this blog for example, because of the internet and computers, we can add videos, pictures, text, the possibilities are virtually endless. As students, we have so many resources available to us through the web and I feel like we take it for granted. We have so many more possibilities and options than our grandparents, and even parents, had. I found it interesting that the video mentioned bold and italics being used, and I am so used ot seeing it in books and writings that to me it seemed like it had always been there. That also goes for a computer, I don't remember life without a computer. That is probably hard for older adults to imagine, since for many a majority of their life was without a computer. I went six years of my life without a computer, and kids younger than me have had computers their whole lives. I liked when the video mentioned "the Web 2.0 linking people", because this is all too true. Social networking is very popular now, and there are very few people that don't belong to a social network. I know ten year olds that have Facebook, and then on the other end, over 50% of social network users are between the ages of 25 and 44. Pretty mindboggling when Facebook specifically was created for college students from Harvard. This video really made me realize how much we have because of Web 2.0.

Blog Post 1: Quotation on Writing

"Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart..." - William Wordsworth

This quote from Wordsworth is all too true. You can never mess up or go wrong when you write what is in your heart. Although, there may be things to edit and revise, but all-in-all writing from your heart will get any writer results, and positive. I think the most successful pieces of writing are one's that come from the heart.

There may be many purpose for writing from your heart, whether it is intended for an audience or not. One purpose may be personal, and to get things off of your chest and make you feel better. Another may be for the audience, to help them understand what comes from your heart and could possibly help the audience understand their heart. Either way, writing from your heart will benefit yourself, along with others.

Another advantage of writing what is in your heart is the audience will relate. Whatever is happening, you are not the first or last person to go through it, so to share how you feel and what you think with an audience that could be going through the same thing could help them understand things from what you went through. You can also connect with your audience on a more personal level. A rhetorical analysis is much less work if the writer writes from his/her heart.

One thing to consider when writing from your heart is to realize that there will probably be an argument of some sort. Your experiences, problems, solutions will differ than from another person and writing about these may cause a person to have differing ideas, opinions, or beliefs and could possible voice these to you. Keep in mind that writing from the heart is also expressing your ideas, opinions, or beliefs so the goal should be to help the audience to think of something they never thought of before, or showing new possibilities and I think this is most effective if one were to write from the heart.

If you write from your heart, they words will flow easier and you will always have something else to say. When I write from my heart, I feel like I don't have enough time to write everything I want to say. Writing from your heart is personal, but it is the most effective and the most rewarding.