As you can tell by the number of posts we've already written for this blog, Theo and I are pretty prolific writers. As we mentioned in yesterday's post, all of these blog posts just come naturally to us because we've been writing like this for most of our lives.
I was an English major as an undergraduate, specializing in creative writing. Along with all of the papers I wrote for my literature courses, I also wrote a collection of poetry for my honors thesis. When I entered grad school, I turned my attention to heavier academic writing, churning out both seminar papers for my courses and a master's thesis, which was recently published in an academic journal. But I didn't stop with my master's, and I'm currently starting my dissertation, which will be the longest single document I'll have written.
Theo's writing has been a lot more diverse than mine. While he's also written seminar papers for graduate courses, he's also done quite a bit of creative writing and journalism. We've already talked about the columns he wrote for the Decatur Daily Democrat from Korea and Japan. Theo also worked for his university newspaper, writing a weekly column, reporting on campus events, and serving as the chief reporter of the sports section. He even got to interview well known comedians Chris Rock and Carrot Top when they performed on campus. While the texts I write are, well... long, most of the writing Theo does is compelling and entertaining. He can produce a creative hook, tell a compelling story, and throw a few laughs in there as well.
Our writing experience extends to multimedia writing also. As I've learned in my graduate program, with new media technology, communicating through text alone is not enough. With a variety of different media at our disposal, effective and compelling communicators know how to use the appropriate form to communicate the right message. We know exactly how to do that. We've not only written a great deal of text, but we've also created and edited images and video, produced websites, and even published cartoons. (Theo won an Indiana Collegiate Press Association Award for Best Editorial Cartoon for his work in his university newspaper.)
Given our experience, you can be assured that our blog posts, Facebook updates, and tweets will be effective, detailed, and always entertaining. We're observant and reflective, like all good writers, and we'll know what information to present in video, when to include some great pictures, and what adventures require a write up of the whole story on our blog. We can't wait to get started.
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