writing to a public audience

Writing to a public audience changes my writing style completely. To avoid negative comments or feedback, I would try not to be offensive in m writing. I would usually write in a way that everyone would be able to understand me and I want to be clear on whatever point I am trying to make. Writing to a public makes me more aware what I am writing because I cannot write whatever I wanted to.

For example, I would have to take into consider other people and their different features like skin color and or with people with different beliefs like religion. I just cannot say horrible things about a certain race or religion because it is wrong.  I would want people of all different kinds to enjoy my writing. If I offend anyone it takes hundreds of people that could have been a fan of my work, but it would be ruined because of inconsiderate words that were written.

I would want to write so people can relate to me and know exactly what I am talking about. I would want people to want to read more and get engaged. So I would take my time and make sure that there are no grammatical errors because it is embarrassing when you write for a public audience and you spell something wrong. Also if there are no grammatical it flows better and would be easy to read. I make sure that I reread, revise, and edit multiple times.

If it had a specific audience I would have to pick an appropriate language. If I were targeting children I would not use long and complex words I would keep it short and simple. Also I would talk about things the kids actually know about not what a teenager or adult would.  For different ages I would use different diction so they could better understand me. Language is not the only thing that has to be taken into consideration when writing to a certain audience, because you have pay attention to things like tone and purpose. I cannot have a very strong tone if I am trying to target children because they probably would not be interested in it. For children I would need like a soft and fun voice so they would enjoy it. Also if you write something with no purpose no one would read it. When I type I want there to be a purpose so someone would get something out of my writing. I want my writing to mean something so I write differently for a public audience.   

Writing

I have never been a good writer. I hate writing because I am awful at it. My writing skills are extremely poor and I have never written a really good paper. Every time I wrote something I would usually never proofread my work because I hate reading my own work. I feel that writing is pointless and boring. Writing is just a skill that has not come easy to me because I have yet to have a breakthrough in my writing.

 A reason for my poor writing skills are probably because of my teachers. The teachers I had were a combination of really soft graders and tough graders, which effected me in high school. My freshman year I had a tough grader and I was consistently getting Cs on my papers. Everything I did to improve did not work and I just gave up on my writing. The next year I had an easy grader because I was getting Bs and sometimes higher. So I thought my writing was getting better, but my English teacher from junior year assured me nothing has changed. My first paper my junior year I got a fifty-nine percent, which was shocking because of the year I had before. My writing keeps bouncing between different teachers so I feel I am not getting honest feedback. I was just unfortunate to get teachers with different grading methods and it caused me to be an awful writer. Some teacher would give me a B on a paper and then another teacher would give me a D on the same paper. That is why I have not had a break through in my writing and that is the reason I am not getting any better.

After my junior year, I truly realized that writing was not for me. I was continuously getting poor grades on my paper and it just hit me that my writing will never improve. My junior year completely destroyed my writing and my confidence in my writing. Especially, when I would get a paper back and it would have little comments and a very poor grade. So I really did not know what I was lacking in or where I needed to make improvements. I would spend multiple hours working on a paper and I felt it was for no reason because the paper would result in a grade that was a D or below. My teacher was very cold and heartless. He really did not care and was not very helpful during or after class. The end of my junior year is where I just come to the conclusion that my writing was the way it was and it would not change. So by my senior year I did not try on any writing assignment because I felt like there was no point. I did the writing assignment just to complete it and put no effort into it, but since I am in college I am hoping that I will finally have the breakthrough I have been looking for in my writing.

Lady Gaga

The music review written about Lady Gaga is called “Lavish Worlds, and the Headwear to Match” by Jon Pareles. It is written in a very unique way because he is trying to appeal to a certain group like music lover and young adults. He does this by using a very informative, descriptive, and praising voice throughout the review trying to get people to better know Lady Gaga. Pareles uses many facts about her that people probably did not know like, “Lady Gaga [is] a multi-selling, Grammy-nominated star in less than a year.”  Pareles would be attracting music lovers because they would have to take interests in someone who is as talented as her and who has all her accomplishments in such little time. Especially when Pareles is saying she was “sounding like a female Elton John” and Elton is an all time great. Lady Gaga was not only compared to Elton John she was compared to “show people like David Bowie and Madonna established this career path, Lady Gaga is strutting along it with larger-than-life style and, behind that, actual musical gift.”  The review compares Lady Gaga to some of the greats like causing people to take notice.

Young adults would be interested because of how descriptive Pareles is and his word choice like when he says, “no one in pop is more audacious about headwear.”  Pareles uses the word audacious, which is a very bold descriptive word and stands out. When someone reads this it will catch his or her eyes and young people usually love young artist who make fashion statement and that are very outgoing. The review talks her outfits with a lot of details and a little about herself. It also talks about how much she loves her fans and what she thinks about them. It would seem that Pareles is a big fan of Lady Gaga and is trying to get more to enjoy her music. Pareles is very descriptive about her tour he also sounds fascinated how she entertains the fans and with her personality. The review is also written in the New York Times, which is a very decorated newspaper and many read it. New York is a big state and Pareles wanted a huge audience trying to attract as many being he can and this newspaper is not only read by people in New York people all over are able to read it. Pareles uses his voice in a smart way and accomplished what he was trying to do.   

Angel Olmo

I was born in Boston, but I have lived most of my life in Framingham. My life in Framingham was boring and there was really nothing to do so at a young age my mother put me in baseball. I started baseball when I was five and I ended my career at eighteen. Baseball was not the only sport a played over the years I have played football, soccer, basketball, and I wrestled. All the sports kept me active and I got to know all of people. Every year I played football I hurt so I never got to play a full season of football. I first started playing football in seventh grade and I ended up breaking my arm at practice. So that season I only got to play five games. Then the next year I played one game and right before the second game I was playing catch and jumped into a ditch and broke my leg. After those to injuries I decided to keep playing because I thought to myself what are the chances that I get hurt again. So entering my freshman year of high school I joined the football team and the fourth game of the season I broke my leg again. This time it was during a game and I played through because at the time it hurt, but I did not know it was broken till after the game. I was walking to my mom's car and I could even but any pressure on my leg and ended up not playing the rest season. This continued for the next three years, but with different injuries. That is my sports history and now here is my school history. I lived right across an elementary school, but decide to go to one that was on the other side of town. So I never know anyone in my neighborhood I would have to go across town to see all my friends. But once I was in middle school, it was a different story because I lived five minutes away from the school and they were the ones going across town. Middle school was when I started meeting kids in my neighborhood  because I would see them while walking to school. So once I got to high school I knew on both sides of town, which was very convenient. I always to alright in school and in middle school I made honors every trimester of every year, but when I got to high school things change. I experienced my first C and after that they become more frequent, but I still got my fair share of As and Bs. I had my ups and down in high school sometimes I did very well and other time not so much, but in the end I graduated with a 3.3 GPA, which is not the greatest but it was not the worst either. I never wanted to go to college, but my mom made me. I applied to six different colleges I got into all of them and I'm not really sure why I chose to go to BSU, but I did and so far it is not that bad.