So this post is basically a response to what Professor Gramse said about my style of writing during class on Tuesday March 29, 2011. I thought it was pretty interesting and felt it could directly be tied into the Unit Four assignment on how we communicate via the Internet.
I think its a well known fact that your true voice, the one you speak vocally to one another really shines in the online environment. I think if you, Shannon Gramse, are going to assign an assignment that involves us writing in an online environment, i.e. a blog, then you should expect that the students are not going to write "formally," as if they were for a 20-page report.
Why? What does format have inherently to do with style? It seems to me that formality, like all matters of style, is a function of one's purpose and audience. There are millions of blogs in the world, and their purposes range from very serious academic or journalistic endeavors to the goofy or narcissistic. Not knowing or being able to distinguish the difference puts us in a dangerous place indeed.
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