The growth within my writing on blogger throughout
the trimester has evidently improved. For instance, in my first posts, I was
not very successful in trying to connect with my audience, and therefore it
made my posts kind of boring. An example of this is how in my older post, I
simply ended the post at the end of a thought, without drawing a conclusion or
making any kind of connection. Throughout the trimester I attempted to work on
making my posts more interesting, so that people would enjoy reading them. In
my second post, I ended with a connection to another novel, The
Hunger Games, which is a novel that most people in this class have probably
read. This would allow a reader to connect to my post more easily. Also, my
vocabulary has improved throughout the trimester. In my first post, my
vocabulary was kind of dull, and when describing characters I did not use very many
effective descriptive words, I only
counted a total of two. In my second post, I highlighted the many examples of
where I attempted to use more descriptive words, and tried to really go in depth
about my impression of each character. Lastly, I believe that my transitions
have improved. In my first post, I hardly used transition words, and went
straight from one topic to the next. In my second post I used transition words
such as so far, also, therefore, for example, etc. Overall I just believe that
the general quality of my writing has improved.
One
thing that I struggled with through the blogging experience was incorporating technology,
as well as keeping up on my reading well enough to publish as effective of posts
as I could have. The reading was due to a busy schedule, but I did my best to
find books that I enjoyed reading so that I would find myself reading during my
free time. To incorporate technology I did my best to be on the look-out for
external articles, media, and pictures that related to something I was reading
so that I could incorporate it in my post and give the reader something to read
or watch that may help them better understand the post. One strength I had
while blogging was the content of my blogs. I felt that I was successful as far
as meeting all of the rubric requirements which included characterization, analyses,
book summary, etc. I believe that I found effective ways to connect with an
audience while still reflecting these important elements of reading throughout
my blogging experience. I am sad to say that I did not even come close to my
reading goal, as high school presented far more time commitment than I had
originally expected. I ended up 18 books off of my reading goal, which is
something I would like to work on next trimester when I hopefully have more
time. I updated Goodreads throughout the trimester by saying which books I had
finished, liking quotes, and marking books that I wished to read. I have
improved as a reader throughout the trimester overall by just beginning to
enjoy and look forward to independent reading, and really working on finding
novels that I was passionate about.
