My relationship with writing has gone through many different stages in the past few years alone. Senior year of high school, I was writing a lot of in class essays with the occasional paper thrown in the mix. I moved on to University of Wisconsin and in the first semester I had to write very few papers, all of which were opinion or reaction based for a Chicano/Chicana studies course I took. My writing began to pick up quite a bit second semester with the speech course I took. However all of this writing was speech writing, yes we needed sources and what not, but it was not the type of writing I was experienced in. I grew to really enjoy writing speeches, I felt they had purpose, due to the fact that all my classmates would hear them rather then just the teacher reading them. After all these changes in my academic career, I might have become a little rusty in the matters of formal writing and the run of the mill five paragraph essay.
I am a journalism major, but I do not want a career in writing. I am looking for a career in broadcast journalism. However, I believe that in my career path your thoughts and speech must be clear and to the point in a similar way that certain forms of writing are. I think that as I become a better writer, I will also become a better speaker. I enjoy magazines and newspaper articles because they can capture a story or an idea in few pages. I eventually want to tell stories in just a few minutes over the air.
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