HANNAH KRAMER
A Little Bit About Me...
My name is Hannah and I am 22 years and old and about to move to New York City. I am pursuing a career in marketing and events. It may seem odd though based on my Economic major and Writing minor, yet hopefully you will see in my portfolio I have acquired much knowledge on human impact on communication. How does writing influence us and how do we influence writing? I have found informal and formal writing are all about understanding tactics and trends to read situations for proper communication.  In the event world, this ability to understand what a situation warrants is the basis of successful communication.
Exercise the writing muscle every day, even if it is only a letter, notes, a title list, a character sketch, a journal entry. Writers are like dancers, like athletes. Without that exercise, the muscles seize up.
JANE YOLEN
THINGS ARE SO BASIC?
FEBRUARY 2015
In a world where people are constantly concerned with the opportunity cost of their time they seek out efficiency in all areas. One of these areas is language, humans make adaptations to words  or create entire new means of expression making their communication efficient. The most prominent way on can see this is slang.
THE ESSAY AND EDUCATION EXPANSION
MARCH 2016
The American Essay mirrors an image of the society at the time which it is produced. Essayist Henry Seidel Canby creates this idea into a metaphor in which the essay is a barometer, reflecting the changing circumstances of its surroundings as they vary in time. The essay reflects growth and development in many social realms within America (e.g., politics, current events, popular trends, etc).
HEDGES AND BOOSTERS
MAY 2015
Can a writer's stance ever be too strong? or possibly can it be too weak? Sometimes this can be the outcome when writers do not utilizes hedges and boosters. Typically, it is seen that in most writing, even on informal platforms writer's adjust their claims to their audience. This piece will possibly make you relook at your iMessages.
WHERE IS ENGLISH GOING?
MAY 2015
English is changing as society fills different needs. Some may debate it is moving rapidly while others will argue slow, however it is undoubtedly changing. This can be attributed to the large digital spaces allowing for voices, and ego chambers of thoughts. Individuals who did not once write now influence prescriptions and language. No matter the pace people may argue these changes on in societies informal discursive spaces slowly will likely affect the standard formal boundaries of writing.
INTRODUCTIONS BEYOND ACADEMIC PLATFORMS
MAY 2015
The Swales Model is a useful tool in academic writing to introduce a piece and give an audience background on a specific niche. But how do people introduce themselves in informal writing? I find that in many ways people utilize the same methods of identifying specific niches and giving background even in informal writing platforms.
TALK SHOW DIALOGUE
APRIL 2018
Everyone is born with language competence, yet their performance may differ. As media outlet expand and we diversify what is accepted in language our performance on changes. Live television is an interesting example of how we change our language choice, utterances, and increase our generalizations to adhere to our growing audience. More interesting, these actions are down often unconsciously, yet show society effecting communication.
LANGUAGE IN JOURNALISM
MAY 2018
The word choices writer’s use and restraint in their linguistic choices can determine how a story plays out in the world. In the Jerry Sandusky case this was true when Sara Ganim broke the scandal. Her interesting vocabulary and choice on how to include voices shaped the news. Ganim is an example of how small linguistic decision can set a tone for following voices to follow.
LANGUAGE AND POWER
MAY 2018
Language can be a tool to shape our realities. The way people understand words is subjective and shaped on experiences, typically on those experiences in their speech communities. Germany in the 1920s was a time where unity was desired and those in power used language as a tool to create hierarchy and morph perceptions of reality. Is it possible for the change of a definition of a word or the feeling around to assist in such oppression? Read for yourself the power of words.