change will do you good

Majoring in journalism has really made me critical of my writing, but in a positive way.

The classes I'm taking are extremely helpful. In high school, I always wondered why I had the same problems year to year in my writing. The same "SHOW DON'T TELL...MORE POP, LESS ICE!" I never realized it was the was the way I was being taught, not the way I'm writing.

By writing news articles, I've learned how to cut my writing A LOT, and just provide useful information people actually want to read. The news writing has in turn helped me to more easily decifer what information to put in papers for my other classes. Here's one girl who's NOT changing her major.

Besides the fact that I tend to use many more words than needed to express myself in writing, I also noticed I'm very capitalization happy. For the rough draft of my spot news article in EL227, Val checked it over and noticed I had about 5 improper nounse capitalized! She looked at me like I was insane. Love ya, Val. =D

What's really wierd is that I'm noticing even when I speak I choose my words more carefully. I guess I'm speaking more...eloquently? It's getting to the point where I correct my friend's grammar! They never change, though (I try).