Different Voices

I really didn't recognize any drastic changes in my online "voice" over the semester.  But in comparing my voice on these blog posts to my other work in this class, it is clear that they are very different.  All semester I've approached these blog posts with a more candid, conversational tone, rather than a strictly academic one and that was very apparent in reading back through them and making corrections to them.  In fact I had a hard time making complete sentences and putting these into more of a paragraph form because I had not been doing this all semester.  Instead I used a bulleted lists and in some cases other types of shorthand explanations.

For other assignments and work in this class, like our papers, I have certainly used a more professional, academic voice.  I think this is effective for taking a argumentative stance in a written work.  Surely writing one of the semester's papers in the way that I write these blog posts would not at all have been effective.  And so I would say my actual speaking voice in class is a compilation of these two - candid and conversational but also argumentative so that I could express my thoughts and feelings.  I definitely think that my "in person" voice was the "truest" presentation of myself because that's simply how I am.  But, I would say my written work voice is most effective and showcases my talents best because in papers and on exams is my voice that is the most prepared and well-thought out before I express it.

It's really interesting to think that we develop these different voices or some might even say personas through the use of the technology.  It is even more strange to think about how these three voices that I just discussed are different yet from say, the spoken voice I use around friends, my voice on my Twitter, or my voice on my Facebook.  Different media platforms and scenarios bring out different ways of expressing ourselves and our thoughts.