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Essays, Twitter, Blogging, and Power Points...oh my!
Having written essays, blogs, tweets and created a Power Point so far this semester, I find it a little hard to compare these four mediums for the simple fact that they are so different. But here goes!

It's natural for me to feel the most comfortable writing an essay simply because I've been doing it for so long. I know how to express myself the best writing an essay, possibly because it's often very structured. Of the four mediums mentioned above, an essay seems to be the one taken the most seriously in the professional world because it's been around the longest and is the most “old fashioned”.

Twittering is a completely new experience for me. I actually find it the most fascinating because it just seems so surreal to cram a thought process into 140 characters. On one hand, it allows the reader to read one or two sentences and get the main point of the tweet. But in some instances, it might not be enough information to inform the reader of an event, thought, opinion, etc.

After reading my classmates' blog posts, it seems pretty apparent that Power Point is definitely not the preferred medium to use for writing/presenting. I have very little experience with it, having made literally 4 or 5 in my entire life. To be honest, it scares me a little bit and I don't really mind keeping my experiences with Power Point to a minimum. It tends to become very redundant because teachers or other students often read right off the slides and don't add any information. Many people also take advantage of Power Point's features a little bit too much and make presentations really flashy and intricate.

Blogging is beginning to grow on me. I like it because it allows the writer to expand on their thoughts, unlike Twitter, but is still much more informal than a typical essay. It seems like some of the conventional rules of writing go out the window when blogging. I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing because it allows some people to get into their groove a little bit more and express themselves more effectively.