Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Potential Foust

For the ending of this mission I'm doing a final analysis paper on those who are in the same kind of situation as me, or those who just are in the space business. I figure out what's the differences between me and them. What kind of writing do they do? What do they typically talk about? How do they talk about what they are writing?

When I first started, I came across someone who is actually well known for doing these types of blogs. His name is Jeff Foust. He happens to be a big figure in the space community. He is a senior analysis at Futron Corporation (a leading provider of Decision Management Solutions for aerospace, telecommunications, and technology enterprises). How I heard of him is through his website called, The Space Review

Foust's website is composed of many different writers including himself. Any writer can come up with a blog or post about something recent that happened with space. The writers talked about many different subjects that I had no idea that existed. They would go into the bigger details about what NASA has planned for the future, space politics, and even interesting fun topics like the recent shuttle parade in L.A. Then, when it came to their writing they each had their own way of tone.

Most of them sounded like professionals and had a very informative writing. They would use space vocabulary that half the time I had to look up and find out what it meant. There were also the type of writers who just had a good relaxing tone. What I mean by that is the vocabulary used was easy to understand. It was a simple post that had images to capture your attention and would keep you occupied with the story.

Jeff Foust has created a community in of itself. He has many people who gather into his website and talk about different things, but one point of interest in common. Space.

It's my turn to join them.
This is BE#12
Signing Out...


1 comment:

  1. I like that you're highlighting a community member here. That's great, and your title was catchy and intriguing. What I wanted to see, perhaps, is more detail about one of Foust's posts. Which one exemplifies him as a space blogger/writer? What is his writing style? Analytical (he writes for science-techies), general audience, or another style?

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