When this quarter began I thought that this class would have a very rigid writing style that I would have to follow. However, much to my surprise it was almost the exact opposite. In this course one of the things that we learned was how to use different writing styles and change our style based on the audience. Being able to change one's writing style in order to appeal to different audiences in undoubtedly a very important aspect of writing. For instance, one would not write a letter to their boss the same way they would write to their friend. Additionally, an academic essay would not be structured the same way that a Twitter post would be. Changing one's writing based on their audience not only causes the paper to be stronger, but also makes it so the audience is more interested in your work.

Outcome 1 challenges students to think about what they are writing and how they are writing it, changing their style, tone, and other aspects of writing based on the audience. Out of all of my papers, the assignment that best fits this outcome is Short Assignment 1.3. In this assignment we were asked to write a memo to our teacher about what we learned from our interviews. In this paper I demonstrated the outcome because instead of writing in my usual, causal format, I wrote in a more professional tone suited for this type of letter. For instance, because this was an assignment to my teacher about what I learned from my interviews I started it out by saying "I am writing to inform you about what I learned from my peer interviews and how I adapted to the different people I interviewed." (Evans 1). This shows that I set the tone as more of a professional and informative tone rather than I casual tone due to the fact that not only is it a letter (memo) which should make it more professional, but it is also more of an informative letter. The content is also appropriate for the audience. In fact, in the memo it is evident that I was trying to stay more factual, and less opinion from phrases such as"the responses I received from him" and "When I asked him" (Evans 1). By keeping the memo about the people I interviewed instead of about my opinion, my memo sounds much stronger, and is more appropriate for the audience than if I had a lot of my opinion in it.

The new skills that I learned from outcome 1 helped me to improve my writing because it made my memo sound much more credible than it would have otherwise. In SA 1.3 my use of the outcome was evident through the sentence structure, tone, and and content of the memo in general. If I had written this memo in more of a casual tone, or like a tweet, it would not have given off the same impression as it does now. Additionally it would be less likely to be taken seriously if I had not set the tone in the beginning of the memo.Overall, this outcome has helped me to improve my writing becuase it has shown me that if I change my writing based on the audience, then it will sound more credible to that audience and be more likely to draw them in.