My Voice In Writing

Finding my personal writing style was difficult for me. I knew it was important but I never took the time to work on it. I struggled with that all through high school. I wrote in a rigid way. A way that checked the boxes to pass but not in a way to raise questions or even be relatable. I continued to find problems with this into Community College until my first English course at Kean. I knew my reading supported my style. The journaling I would do reflecting on a day and about how I was personally feeling would be part of that style. But I never translated it until that course. It was truly the first time that checking the boxes worked in my own style. I think it had a lot to do with finally understanding how I write and what I need to do when I prepare to write even without the use of ‘I’. Sister Molly Heine’s article articulates this well. https://pressbooks.pub/goodideasaboutwriting/chapter/style-and-voice/ If you can learn to understand your style you can also learn when to let it shine or reel it back in a little. Using a personal writing style is a balance and when Heine talks about using it in research papers, I could relate to that after conducting two of my own studies so far at Kean. Both times, even when I am speaking about fact or experimenting, I am using my voice and especially my own personal vocabulary. Her article while it seems repetitive at times, harps on the pieces that create a personal writing style. One of the most important in that to me is reading. I tend to read a lot whether it is novels for fun or different pieces of journalism and sports journalism. Over time they serve as examples for what to do and what not to do. I sometimes even catch mistakes on an article that make me double or triple check my own work. Reading sports journalism is especially helpful since it is a topic for me that also shapes how I speak about a topic that I am literate in and in some ways am still learning to become fluent in. For more on finding your voice, check outhttps://eng2020.chrisfriend.us/blog/literacy/voice/ruicarli/how-do-i-find-my-voice-in-my-writing/.

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