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.
Great analysis!
ReplyDeleteI agree with you that through blogging this past trimester, as well as using goodreads it helped us to grow as writers. When looking back at my blog posts from the beginning and comparing them to the ones at the end I was also able to tell a huge difference in my writing.
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