Blogging Experience
Best Posts
Underneath, I highlight 4 posts which demonstrate my writing aptitude, versatility, and style. I have selected two from both "The Minimum Wage" and "Eye of the Lion". The first blog incorporates research with analysis in order to simplify a complex debate in American politics. I outline the arguments and evidence while distancing myself from a particular stance. In the latter post, I creatively intertwine comedy with story-telling to entertain my audience. For this blog, I integrate an unconventional, slick voice to appeal to my readers. To read each blog in its entirety, scroll down and select the "click to view" button. Enjoy!
What to do with "The Wage"
While required to study a civic issues topic as an undergraduate, I chose to research and challenge our nation's minimum wage. While writing three blogs, I feel that this one best exemplifies my blog-writing ability. I take a rather dense topic and simplify it for my audience. All the while, I engage my audience by continuously providing the pros and cons of raising the minimum wage. Besides simply outlining the minimum wage's framework, I explore the successes and shortcomings of the federally mandated pay rate. Staying purely objective, I look at the wage through an economist's perspective. By the end of my blog, I intend for the reader to make an individual judgement call: Should we raise the wage or not?
While required to study a civic issues topic as an undergraduate, I chose to research and challenge our nation's minimum wage. While writing three blogs, I feel that this one best exemplifies my blog-writing ability. I take a rather dense topic and simplify it for my audience. All the while, I engage my audience by continuously providing the pros and cons of raising the minimum wage. Besides simply outlining the minimum wage's framework, I explore the successes and shortcomings of the federally mandated pay rate. Staying purely objective, I look at the wage through an economist's perspective. By the end of my blog, I intend for the reader to make an individual judgement call: Should we raise the wage or not?
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Eye of the Lion
In a more creative assignment, I blog about funny experiences and awkward situations which routinely occur at Penn State. This blog highlights my versatility as a blogger. In an effort to combine investigative reporting with a dash of humor, I inform my audience of various oddities that happen on, or just off, campus. I take my readers from the depths of the library to the dining halls of the freshman commons, and everywhere in between.