blog # 2

How I write

In this blog I will try to compare the two letters I wrote in our class by describing each one having as a reference the level of formality, the thinking process from my language to English and from a letter to my friend and one to the editor using as a topic my experience in the first week of school.

After I finish this I m expecting to find a few differences between the letters, however I thing that both will have a similar level of formality due to the fact that the friend I pick is one that use to be a colleague in my last formal job back in my country, a little older than me and we use to share a lot of professional thoughts.

Before I start I have to say that for me both letters give me a little bet of difficulty because is been long time since I have to wrote some thing trying to extend my thoughts whit out of the inter action that you have in written conversation by chats or text messages, which become my only contact whit the writhing in the last few years.  Also in those you care less in the spelling, in fact sometimes looks like you are using another complete different  language.  Additionally of this texting effect,  another that happen a lot to me when I m writing or talking in Spanish, is that I’m using more the English in the daily basics and sometimes I can’t remember the proper word I should use in Spanish and I end using the one in English, mixing the two languages.  In contrast when something similar happen to me in English I always try to find another word that replace the one I forget. I m assuming this happen because when in talking whit somebody in Spanish they probably also understand English but when I talk in English I assume that they don’t understand Spanish.

The first letter I’ll describe is the one where I start in Spanish and end in English to my friend in Colombia.  Writing in Spanish for me is very easy because is still my mother language and I feel very comfortable talking or writing on it, but I have to say that my spelling is never been my strong site in any language.  Talking about my experience in my first week wasn’t difficult neither, in fact this beginning of fall is very  important for me because means the come back to the academic world after nine years.  Another characteristic, maybe because my cultural bases or age, is that even in the informality I like to be very polite and I thing that give you certain level of formality but any way I thing the informality let me express my feelings easier.  Finally the swish to the English mode it was relatable easy also because when I use it  to communicate something, I always try to thing in English. I find out for experience that trying to translate every single word from one language to another is a process that make very difficult to keep the sequence of your thoughts.

In the second letter the formality is the standard and I use a decryption of the process I took to reach this point.  The lack of practice in this type of writing have consequences, especially in the spelling and when you are away of the academic area or if your job doesn’t require you to write, is very difficult to find the time to use formal rules or grammar in the day by day writing,  which like a explain before is reduce to chats or texting.  In this the audience is more general because is not a specific target in the conversation,  even knowing that the destination is the editor,  the text have components that alow third people to understand the point of it.  When I write a formal letter I try to kkep begind my feelings and concentrate more in facts.  Also the grammar become more important to follow looking for formal ways to express yourself.  The formality made me look for a better way to say things and elaborate more the ideas. Finally I thing the second letter have a better flow of ideas because you are more focus in the way you develop you thoughts.  

In conclusion as I expected the main difference in my two letters is the way I approach the same topic because in on one the feelings are more clear and give the meaning of it and I the other the topic is more structure and in focus.