Sunday, 12 January 2014

First Post- Introduction

Hi, my name is Anastassia and I am in my second year of professional writing. My interests and hobbies encompass a vast variety of all fields, and my expertise mainly consists of general knowledge on many different subjects and topics. Basically, I have no one specific interest. Rather, anything that sparks my curiosity, like the artificial heart that Parisian medics have developed or the political controversy surrounding Ukraine’s possible joining of the U.N are topics I hear about and, out of personal interest, research. 

I have never used information management software’s, just basic search engines like Google chrome to research secondary information sources. I had a paper due in my Russian culture class on Catherine the Great and the Pugachov rebellion against her installment of serfdom and a specific issue I faced while researching was having to tell whether a website is a good, legitimate, qualified source to extract info from. 

Podcasting is definitely intimidating to me as it involves both research and technology (neither being my strong point)…I didn't even know what a podcast was until the first lecture of this class…but it doesn't seem too difficult in the sense that, if I pick the right topic I know I can spin it off as appealing to the audience which is the basic intention of a writer when he puts out material. However, I sense the actual online construction of the podcast will be the death of me… yet a new experience which I may fall in love with. Who knows!

For my podcast project I am thinking of going with either the Everyday Einstein, 99% Invisible, or Manager Tools topics because these are areas of particular interest to me. It is stimulating to hear what people think of the medical advances we have made to this day- whether we are being too excessive or not. Architecture and the meaning and history behind it is something I have never really pondered so this could be an opportunity for something new, and dealing with managers at work is something any former employee can go on a rant about; discussing experiences, telling stories, and sharing tips.  

If anyone has any questions please comment and stay in touch for help purposes or anything else! J
-Anastassia Vitkovitsky

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