Blog Post Test

This is a test of the blog broadcast system.

Blog vs Essay

             By: Morgan, Brian, and Joseph

             Blogs are personal writing projects that usually is made up posts where the writer can write about anything. Traditional essay writing is more limited to a certain topic and based more upon information than the personal opinion of the writer.  In blog writing the writer can write more freely than in traditional essay writing. In blog writing, it tends to be more conversational to the audience. The blogger is not worried so much about the grammar as they are in connecting with the reader. In blog writing, there is no need to use paragraphs. The blogger can use abbreviations or their own dialogue.  In blogs there is no MLA format, or Work Cited page, making it less formal.  When you’re working on a blog, it’s normally a group effort, as in traditional essay writing it’s an individual project. Blogging is not towards a specific audience as traditional essays are.

            Traditional essay writing is more formal and directed towards an argument you have on a specific topic. Essay writing is writing to please one set of readers instead of a broad set of audiences. Traditional writing always has a specific format to follow, and the writer has to worry about proper punctuation and grammar usage.

Ivory, Soto, Torres

What are the differences between blog writing and traditional essay writing?

 

Audience concerns in blog writing are to me less thought out than when I am writing a paper for a class, but obviously when writing a blog and posting it more people are going to read it than just one or two people that would read an essay, therefore when writing a blog the audience is more important than writing an essay. In the type of paper I would write for a class who I am writing to is a main part in how I word my thoughts. With a blog the writing is more general.  But you have to keep in mind when writing a blog that anyone of any age can read your blog, although some bloggers don’t care about what the audience thinks about their blog they just care that people are reading it, either way the audience plays an important role in blog writing.

The difference between the format an essay and blog is an essay is going to more formal than a blog. Blog writing’s construction is less important to the content being posted. I do not tend to use paragraphs but thoughts are still thought out and separated with punctuation and line breaks. In a school paper nonetheless when you use a quote in a paper it takes just as long to site it properly as it does to incorporate the quote. Blogs are more based on what the writer wants to talk about rather than a topic discussed in an essay therefore I think that people that blog are more passionate about what they are writing. There is more freedom in blogging and in the format because it’s more personal and you’re not being graded on what you are writing. Because you aren’t graded you don’t feel as much pressure when writing therefore having more freedom in your writing.

Working collaboratively on papers can be limiting in your writing. It is hard to convey you thoughts about a subject because you think about how they’re writing will go along with yours.  So in many ways our writing starts to resemble one another’s writing although our ideas my stay very different the way in which we say them adapt so that our ideas flow together more efficiently. The good thing about writing in a group is you can incorporate all the member’s ideas into what you are writing. But I think most people would agree that it is definitely easier to write alone rather in a group.

Differences in Writing

By Jessica Kamp and Brandon Jaworowski

When writing a traditional essay or blog, there are certain things to consider. First, you must consider your audience. For blog writing, your audience could be anyone. Friends, family, coworkers, strangers. Anyone can read a blog. Because of this, a blog reaches a broad scope of people. You can't write to appeal to a certain type of person because many types of people have access to the blog. In traditional writing, you're typically writing for a certain audience. If you're a doctor, you're writing for the medical field. If you're a student, you're writing for your professors. This means that your audience is smaller and reaches a smaller scope. In traditional essay writing, you can attempt to appeal to one type of person. Your writing is tailored to the people who will be reading it.
Second, you must consider the structure and mechanics of your writing. In a blog, there are less restrictions on structure and layout of the writing. Since it reaches a wide scope of people, there is room for artistic interpretation and individuality. You can write how you choose to express your thoughts. In traditional writing, there is more structure that must be followed. Since you audience is less broad, there are more established rules that determine good and bad writing. The way you present your ideas and arguments must be clear and follow a definite structure.
Finally, you must consider collaborative writing if you are writing with another person. For both blog and traditional writing, collaborative writing requires working together and sharing ideas. It requires patience and an open mind to hear another person's ideas and thoughts. It is easier to write together in a blog because there are less restrictions and guideline to meet. It is more individual writing. For traditional writing, it is harder to write together because you have to consider the guidelines and rules of traditional writing.
There are many differences between writing a blog and a traditional essay. It is important to consider these differences when writing.

The Cyber Anti-Bullying Campaign

By: Morgan, Brian, and Joseph

Our mission is to combat the destructive nature of bullying in the Cyber world by providing compliments to those who have simply had a bad day and deserve kindness. We pledge that we will do everything in our power to make facebook and the rest of the World Wide Web a place where everyone, from bloggers to surfers, will not have to fear their comments and posts being cut down by those who wish they were clever enough to have written it in the first place. People who do not have anything pleasant to say and would instead rather be hateful have no business in being a part of the group. We are not trying to exclude anyone from joining for that in itself would be hateful.

Do you date like a man? Or a woman?

Ivory, Soto, Torres

According to Myreah Moore in her book Date Like a Man women need to stop dating just trying to find a husband and start dating more like men and have more fun dating. In her book she explains why and how men are the “Master Daters” and why women should take their techniques and use them against them. Men are ahead in the dating game for several reasons; they love themselves, they are confident at any age, they are independent, the list goes on. The point is, women are always thinking about where it’s going and what they are doing wrong and right. In her book Moore explains that in order to beat men at their own game women have to understand how they think and operate. Men and women are completely different and so are their ideas about love and relationships, this is how so many people end up heart-broken and alone.

Of course this is taken from a generalized point of view of the way women date. Not all women date like that, but a majority do. This is why Moore wrote this hoping to make that number go down. Her goal is to make women love themselves just as much as men do and also to help the majority of women that are not as independent become independent. Moore aims to give women the confidence in dating that they lack.

Now let’s take dating from a guys point of view:

As the only guy in my blog group I'm the only input on the subject of dating from the male point of view. When I get a date as any guy I'm looking for a good time. That's all I see first dates as, a way to have fun and see if it’s something I would like to pursue, if not I move on. However if a second date does happen there are certain things I start to look for, the most important is what would my mother think of her. The rest I usually judge later on. But for me I see dating as a way to figure out what I would want in a wife. I'm not looking for a wife right now obviously but dating is a way to see what criteria you would want in your spouse. Guys do date differently though most guys like to chase the girl but only for a certain time after a while it gets old and we give up. That brings me to the crazy obsessive girl also known as the clinger. The clinger is every guy's worst nightmare, at first sign of a clingy girl it’s time to cut and run. I don't know why but a lot of girls tend to be this way some worse than others.

Of course people are different there are a select few that date completely different. Maybe there are women out there that date like men, and maybe there are men out there that tend to have their dating style like that of a woman. It all depends on the person. But you can’t help but take what Moore said in her book and realize that most of it is true. As stereotypical as it is it could most definitely come in handy as well as help the women out there struggling with their dating. Maybe women do need to stop being so serious about their dates and start having fun and be more confident in themselves. Or maybe men need to get more serious and stop losing the arrogance that most tend to have. Or maybe we will never find a solution to this and this is just the way things will always be.

Brandon Jaworowski Jessica Kamp "The WAR on Big Tobacco"

Ous was assigned to finding an alternative way to solve and issue in society. We think we came up with a pretty good one which attends to the Big tobacco companies and all te people they kill each year by having them smoke and using other tobacco products. I have one idea and it is quite simple. We always talk aobut how we are at war with big tobacco companies and that they are winning and just keep doing what they do and kill more and more each year. Well how about instead of just going to war with big tobacco we go to "WAR" with big tobacco companies. We are talking aobut pretty much declaring war on big tobacco and all of there companies factories and workers. That can end the total discussion about what to do with them. We could simply tell them were going to war and have them get prepared because we can't just go in and attack them now that would be slaughter we need to give them an equal and fair oppurtunity. So we saw give them one month to prepare then it is fair game. We would just send our troops to watch over there buildings and whenever they move we strike. Our we could make it less open and kidnap one of their workers and just disguise our own to go in and be secret agent. He could easily plant some explosives around the buildings and they wouldn't stand a chance. We could take them out in no time. There are other ways we could easily send a couple fighter jets to just bomb their buildings and watch them crumb. We can watch as they try to fight back or honestly give up and end this war that is killing millions of people every year. Their products are KILLING people, we have to end it. we would gladly sacrifice their lives for all of the ones we would save from killing them. Or hopefully they just give up and no blood shed has to happen and they can just surrender and stop production. We hace devised multiple ways to end their tyranny. We can not have them continue what they do, it is killing mothers, fathers, grandparents, grandmothers, sisters, brothers and killing teens. We have to end them! A simple boycott/ isolation would go a long way to, if we just camped outside their buildings and waited till they ran out of supplies they would have to make a simple choice starve or die because we wont let supplies in and they would have to run out sooner or later. These people are already ahead in the battle killing millions every year. It is about time we turn the tables on them and slowly take them out month by month and end their corruption!