Friday, May 8, 2015

It's been an intresting journey...



This experience with writing on the blog was certainly a pleasing one. I have had multiple blogs in the past, branching from a travel blog titled ‘Road trip down Route 66’, to a senior year blog called ‘Just for Us’, of which I was an editor and chief and would do most of the writing one way or another. Therefore I certainly have a good base of knowledge of how to do and keep a blog. However, this blog I consider to be a very straight forward one so to speak, given the fact that it’s not all spruced up as some of my other blogs have been.
I have 14 post and most of them range from 250 words to 310 words.

I think that my writing technique remains on the same level as when I first started writing. Somehow I think I did this purposefully because of the fact that I think that my writing style is completely my own. However I do believe that my thought process has become a might faster so to speak. Inspirations comes much quicker and my ideas tend to be fairly solid. I have found that this blog was very different from the journal writing to the point that since it’s on the internet for all of you to see and comment on I had to be very careful that it had no grammatical errors and make sure that the information going into it was as accurate as it could possibly. I certainly didn’t want to put out something that didn’t even make sense. Therefore, this blog was given me a chance for us to be able to express myself toward the world about my experiences in our English class so it certainly has a very clear purpose on that front.

All of my group members commented on my blog using what is know as Peter Elbow reviews. A lot of these reviews were very helpful especially those that asked questions and gave their opinions on something or another. Because as much as I want to put out my opinion on a certain matter, I also loved hearing my group members opinions on the same thing.

 I think that with this writing experience I truly did learn about being a straight forward writer, getting right down to the facts and to some of my opinions. With all of my writing projects have had different and significant impacts on the way I now write to the extent of conciseness and flow of ideas.

I think that this experience has definitely renewed my love for blogs therefore I truly do hope that I manage to continue one through out my college experience...




 

8 comments:

  1. I find it pleasant that you could renew the love you had for blogs. I think that as human beings, we sometimes lose the passion of things we like to do. This may be cliche, but it's like a storm that comes out of nowhere to a beautiful day. And we may think that that is how is going to be from now on, but what we don't know is that the storm doesn't last forever and the sun comes out again and sometimes, if we're lucky, we get to see a beautiful rainbow. So I believe that after this blog project, you may have find the sun again in blog posting, and you should keep on with it.

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  2. Since you HAVE to make thesis, you should definitely keep a blog that is linked to what you're researching.

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  3. It's nice that you like the blog. Personally, Im not a fan of it, but Im sure that this will be an invaluable tool for someone like you who is in the process of a research and writing a thesis. Keep up the good work!

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  4. Hey, after reading this post I was just wondering: Did the fact that your blog was obviously public influence make you choose not to say things that you wanted to say or restrained you in any way?

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    1. Hello Crystal! I must say that yes I did censor myself in this blog a bit... I would still fully give my opinion on the matter however I did pick and choose my words carefully.

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  5. Hi!!!
    You mentioned you had had previous blogs. Can you comment on how were those first experiences keeping a travel blog? Did you receive any feedback?

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    1. Hello Nicolas! My travel blog was a pretty fun experience in general... I mostly recorded the happenings of being on the road and going through 6 states in a little under 2 months and it was very similar to keeping a journal. It was simply public. I actually got some feedback and I got to learn about other peoples traveling stories and their tips and tricks for the road!

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