One thing that I have
learned this trimester is that I can be a great writer I really try. I learned
a lot about myself and me as a writer. I have definitely grown as a more
analytical writer this trimester thanks to the weekly blog posts.
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Some strengths that I
had with blogging include summarizing, reviewing, and evaluating a given text.
I was able to read a certain text and come up with my own summary of the text.
I was also able pick out some important lines or pieces of text from a book and
talk about it and also talk about how that line or piece of text relates back
to the book as a whole. From one of my blog posts called Most Important Line
from Chapter: Love. I created this blog post when I was reading the book Incantation
by Alice Hoffman. I was able to pick out a line from one chapter and relate
back to the chapter as a whole and the book as a whole as well.
One thing that I
struggled with through this experience is being able to connect the text to
anything else. I found it difficult to make connections with the text. I was
able to make the connections while I was reading but I found it difficult to
put my connections into words. I overcame or worked through this struggle by
jotting down notes when I made a connection with the text. I would later use
these notes to create a well-rounded blog post.
The
quality of my writing has definitely improved over the course of the trimester.
My first blog post was the summer reading assignment blog post. I had the read
the book Have a Nice Day by Julie Halpern. In this blog post, I mostly
just summarize the book and I don’t take a closer look at the smaller details
in the book. Towards the end of the trimester, I posted a post called Maximum
Ride-School’s Out Forever Book Review. In this post, I talk about the
summary of the book, the type of audience for this book, what I would rate the
book and the writing styles that the author used when writing the book. I feel
like I have definitely provided more information of the book and my thoughts
about the book as well compared to the blog post at the beginning of the
trimester.
I
really enjoyed blogging and independently reading this trimester. This
opportunity allowed me to read a lot more than I would have without having to
do the blog posts. I am definitely looking forward to reading a lot more and
blogging next trimester for the English 1B class.