THLOG

 Week 6
 The focus of this weeks classes was style and stylistic moves. These two classes felt somewhat more engaging because we co vered a lot of tips that will help me in writing anything from resumes to these blog posts. One of the most shocking things that I found actually helped a lot was changing the font to help with the style of writing you are choosing to use. I don’t necessarily know why it helps but just seeing a more relaxed and flow-y type of font helps get that type of style out on the screen. Another thing we covered was using the thesaurus to find more fitting words to place into writing. The example we used was says but this tool can be used with pretty much any word. This tool really helped me when writing my scholarship essays back in high school because when I couldn’t think of the perfect word I just used a colloquial term to get my point across then went back to fix it. The most important topic. I believe, we learned this past week however was the use of hedged language. This aspect of writing is particularly important because it makes the writer more credible in situations that can potentially be very ambiguous. I try to practice the use of hedged language as much as I can when I am not sure of things but still have an opinion on them.