Over the course of this English
class, I learned a great amount about what a blog post actually is. It was
interesting to me to search the internet for nearly any topic and receive
numerous posts about it. It was quite a relief when our teacher told us to
throw away all of the strict rules we had learned about writing into high
school and to view it differently. From week to week, I actually got to spend
time creating my own blog posts and hyperlinking other blog posts into my
writings. If I had to choose three of my most liked topics to reflect on, they
would be Blog Post #2, 4, and 5.
In the second blog post, I had to
compose a post with the topic of “Why College?” The assignment was to express
my opinion on why I think it is important to go to college. For me, I never
really took the time to think about it. I was raised with no option on whether
or not I would attend college. I really had to sit down and think about why I
even went to college. For this assignment, I think many people have different
opinions on whether or not college is right for them. I thought it was
interesting to read other classmates posts and compare them to mine to help me
with future blog posts. This was my first blog post and I do believe week by
week I could reflect on it to see how I was improving in my writing.
During the Fourth blog post, I had to write on
the topic of “Is College (good) Enough?” I decided to add a picture to not make
the post so tiresome. Some type of media always adds interest into a page full
of words. Also, I was able to associate other blog posts related to my topic
into my post. For an example, one of the posts that I used in my writing had
many statistics and I was able to use some statistical information related to
my topic. At first, I wrote this post and did not give it the revision it
needed so when we had the chance to revise any blog post, I chose this one. I
believe that this blog post was one of my strongest after the revisions.
In my fifth blog post, I had to find
and read a passage from the book Share or Die. Once we found one that caught
our interest, we had to compose a blog post with our opinion about it. I found
this post to be the most interesting to me. It was amusing to read about
different stories that have happened to college graduates. I actually took this
assignment as a preparation for the “real world” or the life after college. In
this post, I was able to interpret the author’s words into my post. This post
was definitely the easiest post where I could put my thoughts about her real
life situation into words.
This class has really taught me a
bunch. Before this class I had never read a blog, wrote a blog, and let alone
knew what a blog was. I think blogging is very useful in today’s society, which
has been very dependent on technology and social media. It was a great
opportunity to learn more about social media and how to apply it to our lives,
in a positive way. I look forward to using this helpful information, I learned
though out this course, in the future.
