Journal+1+-+Basgall

// Journal 1 // : Reading is something that I always correlate as a part of home. Home doesn’t exist anymore for me since my parents moved my senior year of high school, but the memories still lay within my brain. Mom always had a book with her around the house. I remember she’d be in the massive blue chair with her feet propped up and a diet Pepsi, her setting. Sometimes she would doze off but always had that one book with her. When I was little she took me to the book fair and let me choose any book that I wanted. Then she’d continue purchasing that series until I was done. I don’t know if I ever processed what I read but it felt right to be reading anything and by chance make my mom proud. In response to question 7 (Think of a time you changed or adjusted your language practices for a given setting? Why did you make these changes?), I always change my language depending on the setting. With conversation I use my own vocabulary (which I have realized has grown to a point that my high school team that I coach makes me use different words that aren’t as advanced and are more understandable). With emails I try to be as assertive and professional as possible since I mostly deal with parents or other coaches. Emails should never be text lingo or use inappropriate word choices. I also change my language with social media. I can’t say whatever I want, I need to censor myself since my audience can be affected or may take what I type and make wrong accusations or assumptions. I make these changes because I wear three different hats in my life. There’s the student, coach, and then just plain me, myself. Each person/hat has an expectation and way of speaking that comes with the job titles. I believe this is also fit with anyone who either responds to emails or speaks with someone face to face that they do change their way of writing compared to the way they speak. It's different talking to family members in conversation in comparison to writing an essay, the language has to be conversational or academic, it is what society expects. I can’t email a professor the way I text my boyfriend. In social situations it is expected that you speak and write the way society wants you to adhere to. If you come across speaking using lingo or slang then it is assumed that you are uneducated, but if you speak in a professional manner with proper vocabulary and verbiage it is assumed that you are educated (which sometimes can be a bad thing and come across egotistical).