Out of all the exercises that were available to do, I chose exercise 3. The prompt is “What is a type of writing that you do outside of school writing? How does your knowledge about the context of writing determine how you communicate in this writing situation?” I would say, to answer this question, the main type of writing that I do that is outside of a school type of writing is when I write in a journal. I don’t really journal a whole lot anymore however, every once in a while when I have a lot on my mind and I sort of just want to unload somewhere, I will write in a journal about my day or whatever I am feeling. The writing I do in my journal is a lot different than how I would write on an essay. Since I am not writing for an audience I use a lot more casual lingo and not making everything so proper. I also probably have a lot of run on sentences in my journal because I don’t typically pay attention to punctuation or anything like that, its more about just getting all my thoughts down on paper. Sometimes I enjoy writing essays about things I am passionate about or writing a paper that is proper and grammatically correct, however, sometimes it is also nice to just not have to make a paper perfect and just to get everything that you can down. Sometimes I find that by not paying attention to every little detail, it is a lot easier for the story to flow and it can also make the story you are trying to tell a lot more personal as well.
