The Words of the Wise

As I found myself browsing over all the different words that the president's have used since 1789, I found myself to be rather surprised at how much certain words were used and at how little words were used.

When I think of a new president, I think of improvement. For some reason it has always seemed to me that when a new president takes office, he is going to work on something and make our nation a better place. Looking through the words used by the presidents, I realized my assumption was way off. There were only two presidents who even had that word listed. I guess it's not as popularly used as I thought. Although there were some words that didn't surprise me all that much.

During the time I was looking for improvement, I seemed to notice how often nation and government were used. It seemed to me that those two words were very common in almost all of the president's speeches. Sometimes, through the early years, these words weren't as common, but as the years turned towards being more current the usage of those words were very high.

Through this activity, I was able to really think about the words that presidents commonly use in their speech, and I thought that was really neat. It got me to be creative in the ways in which some of the presidents used so many of the unpopular words that were so frequently used by them as an individual. Hopefully throughout the course we will have more opportunities to do more activities like this.

The View Point of Writing in My World

Writing can be interpreted in a number of ways. There are people who write every single day of their life and love it, people who write because they are forced to, and people who write because it just keeps them busy. Well for me, I write because I have to. But that doesn’t meant that I can’t find joy in it or have an opinion on the way I write.

The way I write isn't unique in anyway, I just sit on my laptop and type. I allow for the words to flow out and that's what ends up on my computer, even my final draft. Then again after I ramble a lot, it leaves me with a lot of corrections to be made. 

I always follow a typical paper format, with an introduction, body paragraphs, and conclusions, but sometimes it doesn't always end up being read the same way I thought I wrote it. I overthink my writing a lot and want to add in a bunch of fancy words so that I sound more sophisticated because to me, if teachers don't feel like you are using good word choice, then your paper "sucks". That's why I find myself being forced to write rather that actually writing for fun.

Although there are quite a few times when I will find myself writing for fun and that's when I enjoy it the most. I just say what I want, without worries or critiscm. My ideas flow from my head and through my fingers, onto the keyboard and once I'm done it turns out to be decent. It's when pressure is put on me that I feel my writing turns terrible.

It doesn't help that I can become easily distracted with texting and facebook. Therefore I find majority of my time where I could be working on a paper, and instead I'm getting side-tracked by little things other than the paper itself. I have to be completely focused if I ever want to sit down and write a decent paper. 

Writing can mean a lot to all sorts of people, but to me it's mainly something I am forced to do. I don't find myself as a brilliant writer by any means, just someone who writes because of instruction and therefore not ending with the best papers out there, but at times I can find joy from writing, it just has to be on my own time.