Blog Reflection

During this trimester I have not only grown as a blogger, but I have also grown as a reader and writer. I struggled with some things during this experience, but I also had strengths during certain times. The biggest thing I struggled with was time. I am a gymnast with a busy schedule and I don’t get home every night until 8. Also giving that I come home tired anyway, I struggle with getting my homework done in a timely manner. I figured out over time how to deal with this and work through it by planning ahead and managing my time. I also write down my assignments in my planner and if I have something that is due in a certain amount of days, I make sure to spread that assignment out and work a little bit at a time so I get it done. Throughout this trimester I have gotten better at getting my assignments done and managing my time.

            One of the strengths that I have is punctuation and sophisticated words. I am pretty good with punctuation and I know when to use it and when not to use it. I also really like using different words that people know but don’t usually use. I don’t like using small words unless it’s very necessary. I would usually consider myself a good writer, but I still have a lot of room to grow.

            The quality of my writing in my blog posts have grown throughout the trimester. I started out this trimester being kind of vague and I didn’t specify very much. In my very first blog post about my summer reading project, I pretty much just said it how it was and I didn’t really go into depth on anything. I didn’t give examples and it almost sounded like I was just answering questions off of a page. I highlighted examples on the blog post on how I just stated the obvious and told it how it was (First blog post). As I got better and better at writing blogs, I eventually learned how to incorporate more of my own voice and provide examples and opinions. In my blog post, Plans for Future Books, my voice was definitely incorporated much more than previously. In this blog post, I used examples and opinions on what I thought and why I thought it. I used statements like, “I was really surprised by…” and, “I really liked how…” which added extra voice and opinion. When voice, opinion and examples are given, it increases the quality of the writing. In my latest blog post, I highlighted the quality statements and examples. Even though I did use a quote in the first blog post, which is an example, I didn’t use quality interpretation. First of all, instead of using some sophisticated way to introduce the quote, I wrote, “It said …” when I could have used something like “The book stated…”. This would have added more quality to my writing. Even though I did not have a quote in my latest blog post, some of my other more recent blog posts that did have quotes, had more sophisticated vocabulary which also indicates better quality writing. The last indication of better quality writing was the fluency. In my Summer Reading Project, I wrote very choppy and the transitions were too sudden, but in my Plans for Future Books, I transitioned into different topics pretty smoothly. Overall, the quality of my writing has improved a lot since the beginning of this trimester.