Journal #35

This blog is to be about how I have evolved over the school year as a scholarly writer.  The two blogs that we are comparing is our blog on Propaganda and Faulty Logic from back in September and our most recent blog about Whitman's use of Self in his poetry.  I have skimmed over both and honestly I have noticed little change...What is still consistent:  I still, no matter what I am doing or what class, write sooooooo much.  No matter what I am doing I always end up turning in waaaaay more than what is expected.  This can be a good and bad thing.  In both blogs, I am a humorous writer.  "Another type is called glittering generalities.  Yes.  It is actually called 'glittering generalities'.  Sad, I know."  This is from my older blog.  "What is Self, Capitol "S?"  The dictionary describes self as "a person or thing referred to with respect to complete individuality: one's own self" (Dictionary).  What does complete individuality have anything to do with some poet of the street who may or may not have been pretty scandalous for his time?  Absolutely everything!"  This is from my more recent blog about Whitman.  Honestly, I think I might have begun to use even more humor through out my criticism's as times gone on.  One big difference I do notice between the two that can be counted as an improvement:  what person I am talking in.  I finally stopped using first person in my posts.  Well at least I'm trying...It's quite hard I've realized.  My citations and back up has also improved dramatically.  In past years I've been able to get by with maybe throwing in a URL and ignoring parenthetical citations, but this year it's a must.  I've evolved into being able to use the criticisms much better and incorporate them in a scholarly and, to be frank, useful way.  I don't just use them because it's a requirement.  The actual core of my writing is still very much the same, but I have gained my useful techniques and characteristics, as well.