Reflection Essay
Author: Billy Lau // Category:1. Explain one or two ways my writing has improved (or not). Include a few examples from my posts over time, with analysis and links to the original posts, to illustrate how the improvement(s) happened.
9. Has blogging had any other effects on my life beyond strictly my "school life"? Explain.
7. What have I learned from my struggles with writer's block? Why do I tend to get stuck? How do I tend to get unstuck? Notice any patterns?
First off, I would like to say how much I love my blog. I do not want to let it go, but if Mr. Sutherland does not stay than I can not blog. I just wish the new teacher(if there is one) will let us use our blogs again. I probably will not find the time to blog and forget about it all, but I still will miss it completely. However, one thing I will not forget is how fun it was writing “randomly”.My favorite part of doing this blog were the quick writes. In the quick writes, I wrote about my thoughts on Justin Bieber to reasons why someone should buy an Ipad. I also wrote about society issues like racism and how facebook affects everyone. In this reflection, I will be talking about how my improved writing in my blogs has changed me in many different ways.
9. Has blogging had any other effects on my life beyond strictly my "school life"? Explain.
7. What have I learned from my struggles with writer's block? Why do I tend to get stuck? How do I tend to get unstuck? Notice any patterns?
First off, I would like to say how much I love my blog. I do not want to let it go, but if Mr. Sutherland does not stay than I can not blog. I just wish the new teacher(if there is one) will let us use our blogs again. I probably will not find the time to blog and forget about it all, but I still will miss it completely. However, one thing I will not forget is how fun it was writing “randomly”.My favorite part of doing this blog were the quick writes. In the quick writes, I wrote about my thoughts on Justin Bieber to reasons why someone should buy an Ipad. I also wrote about society issues like racism and how facebook affects everyone. In this reflection, I will be talking about how my improved writing in my blogs has changed me in many different ways.
This blog really showed how much my writing improved blog by blog. I remember starting off this blog, with a bad state of mind. I thought the whole idea of a blog was stupid, so I completely plagiarized everything. I plagiarized on a quick write explaining the story behind a video game. I started off saying,
This is the story of Halo1: Combat Evolved. This is an Xbox video game that I love...
then I went on copying word per word off of wikipedia. After a couple of weeks of doing this blog I felt so stupid and decided to delete it completely. Then, I went on to other blog posts talking about things that interested me and I began to like having a blog. I remember doing a blog post about facebook, and I had a really great time doing it.
My improvements in this was that I added a lot of depth and reason in this posts. I actually thought about this posts hard and went on doing a lot of research. I think I did good, listing suggestions on how we can avoid facebook. Comparing my facebook post to my Halo post, there are major differences. I also noticed that I had better grammar in my Facebook posts, and that is a major improvement for me. In the Halo post, I just plagiarized a story and there was really not much thinking. It was like a really short video game summary. As I look further into my posts, I noticed a changed in my blogs. They seemed to get longer and more interesting. I think that at one point I wanted to add some humor into my blogs, and I did this in a posts about abbreviations. I did this because I felt that my readers were not interested, so I wanted to grab them in by integrating something that will make them laugh.
I dont think that this posts is the best but at least it captures the reader’s attention, and that, is also a major improvement.I also talked about things that affect society like my experiences with social things such as racism.
This is what I put in my blog post because I am so tired of listen to all the crap at school or on the streets. In my other blog, I also talked about global warming. Our science teacher talked about how global warming is killing us humans and we are the ones that caused that. I was so scared and I gotten so alert that I felt that I should tell the world about it.
Overall, I incorporated a lot of things that are not really academic to my blog posts to make it fun to read.
My Friday’s have been changed because of blogger. I have been sleeping a little later than I expected. Usually, I sleep really early on Friday because I want to make up for the hours I missed on the school days . I am not saying that this is bad, because writing is really fun too. I can say that writing blog posts has helped me grow in other classes too. For instance, in corbally’s class my essays have improved greatly. I used to get C’s and D’s in her class but now I am getting some B’s. That has been the change that affected my school life. Outside of my school life, I have been telling everyone about blogger. I been telling everyone that they can read my blog because I talk about things besides academics.
Writing so much has not gotten me completely away from writer’s block. I still get stuck every once in a while, especially when I am distracted or when I am not an expert in the topic. I think for every three posts, I get stuck on at least one. To not get stuck, I start by thinking of a topic that I am completely familiar in. This way, I do not get stuck at all, but this does not always work. I think I get stuck sometimes because I forget what I am writing about or what I am going to write about. I may go use the bathroom and come back and totally forget what I was writing about. I can get pass this by making a plan or an outline before every blog posts. This way, I will know exactly what I am going to say before I even start typing. I have not tried this plan but I can guarantee it will work.
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