Journal #35

In this journal blog, I have to compare my writing in a previous blog about the Declaration of Independence and how it exhibited propaganda and errors of faulty logic to my most recent Discussion Post over Walt Whitman's search for the Self.  The biggest change I saw between the two posts are the citations.  In my Declaration of Independence blog, I had citations but they were used incorrectly and I left out some where I summarized.  Since September, I have learned a lot more about citations and when it is the right time to use them.  I used to not put them when I summarized a literary criticism or a passage that we read.  I now know that it is necessary to include the citations when I do that.  going along with citations is the fact that I use more citations now than I did back in September.  I used to only use a one or two but now I have like six or seven.  In my Whitman Search for Self, I had around seven different citations to aid me in my writing.  Another thing that caught my eye were my transitions at the beginning of each of my paragraphs.  They are very similar to the ones I use know and the flowiness of the words into each paragraph.  Yes I know, I just made that word up but it was necessary just like citations are.  I am positive that I have grow in my writing.  I know this because I use synonyms and make sure I have support. I find myself putting all of my ideas down and being able to connect them all without making it choppy.  In past writings, I was a boring writer and I got bored coming up with ideas.  When I would put my ideas down in my blog, they were all mixed together and would leave things hanging.  I am glad that my writing has evolved and I hope it keeps on evolving.