Writing Background

My name is Joseph Hirka and I would like to welcome everyone to my blog. I am a freshman at The Ohio State University and I plan on majoring in Accounting, and hopefully achieving a minor in mathematics. Throughout my years of English classes I have never written a blog. I have followed many blogs and have commented on a few, but never have I written one myself. My favorite blogs to read have to be sports blogs and one’s my friends from high school wrote and still write. Not many people realize that school or academic written really does go hand in hand with the way we write for the public. I say this because writing in school is supposed to prepare someone for the next level. In middle school the writings we did were done to prepare us for high school writing. Then in high school, from my personal experience, I was taught how to write for college. I say this because I learned how to write analytically.

The major assignment for my English class this quarter is to pick a source on the topic of survival and analysis it. For this assignment I am going to need to know how to write analytically. Along with this analytical paper I have to write blogs. These blogs and this paper are ultimately supposed to prepare me for the next level of writing. In my mind the next level is public writing. Yes I know anyone can public write, but can they do it good? The answer varies only because some may be naturally gifted. However, most of the interesting blogs comes from journalist majors or writers with some college writing course. Therefore, a college level of writing has prepared them to create interesting blogs or writings.