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rachelr, I totally know how you feel about writing less formally.  My high school gave us a style sheet during our freshman year for writing papers, and we were expected to follow it to the letter in everything we wrote throughout all four years.  It's so difficult for me to even use the first person in papers (we were never allowed to), let alone write in a less formal style, which is why posting random thoughts for each week of class is so new to me.  I'm trying to use this class, however, to ease into writing that way.