Looking Back On The Semester

The most memorable thing that I have learned about in this course would most ceratianly be blogs. Before beginning this class, I had really no prior knowledge with anything blog related, reading or writing them. When I learned that I would be both reading and writing blogs as assignments, I knew that it would be a whole new experience and a good way to learn about blogs as well. At first, my idea of blogs was basically that they were online personal outlets for individuals thoughts, opinions, and interests. Ultimately, they seemed like journals or diaries before I really got into the blogging world. After keeping up with a few blogs and writing my own, I have a better understanding of what blogging really is. Though some people have blogs as diaries, those really aren’t what blogs are known for. The real blogs that are popular and well-known are the ones with interesting, informative, or thought-provoking content, not someone’s personal ramble. With blogs emerging as such a popular source for news and information, it is important to know about blogs. I’m very glad that my view of such a growing source of information has been corrected in this course.

Over the course of the past few months, I have noticed some changes in my writing. I am not as overwhelmed by large writing assignments as I was before. Writing actually seems to come easier than it has in the past. Reading, however, really has not changed much for me. In previous classes, I have been accustomed to difficult reading and lengthy reading assignments so not much has changed here, except that I approach reading with a more analytic attitude and take a stance on the topic being discussed.

Through the blog assignments, my writing has especially changed. It used to take me an unreasonable amount of time to complete any writing assignment, whether it be a half page response to a paper or a six page essay. For example, I wrote this in about 25 minutes. At the beginning of the class, a couple of the blog-response posts took me a couple of hours to put together. Since writing these posts, I have been able write with more ease and confidence.