Final Blog Post

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.