The post I'm going to choose is my post Dear John monthly review. I chose this blog post because I think this is the the post where I actually went in depth about what I am talking and writing about. This is my second monthly book review that I had done for English. This book had questions that were actually at the end of this book. It makes you go in depth about the book and makes you look at things in a different perspective.
This is the second blog that I actually used a quote from the book. Well, the first uses of quotes were for this book too, but the lit circle letter.
The thing that surprised me when I read this was that I didn't sound so childish. I didn't so like a professor either, but I like how this post actually turned out. I think the reason I did so well on this post was that the book was a romance novel. I really like romance novels. No matter what, romance novels are so much easier to read for me, as opposed to the books I read later on, and before Dear John. Bastard Out of Carolina was a very disturbing and depressing book. Ending Slavery was a shocking book. I liked those book, but not as much as I liked Dear John itself.
How do you like having a blog? How has blogging changed the way you write, the way you think, or the way you think about writing?
Having a blog was definately different. I had to write every week. But I like it. It helps me with my writing. Blogging has changed the way I write now, and the way I type. I remember, I used to not capitalize my "I's" and used the word in the wrong places. I wrote how I usually write when I'm talking to a friend, or something. Now, I have been watching how I write. I actually capitalize my "I's" and know the difference between "you're" and "your."
The things I read has influence the way I write in many ways. If i see someone write really really good, it makes me want to write just as good as them, but if they haven't written really carefully, then it makes me write carelessly too. Over times, I have often thought that my writings were not good enough. I have always thought my posts sounds so childish, as if, some kid from elementary school was writing this. It was not a great feeling. As time went on, I started noticing changes. I'm not sure if it was that I was actually improving or that I was just viewing my writing in a different approach.
I know that most of the times, I don't know what to write, but once I have something to talk about, I think that I could write about it forever. But unless it is a really good topic, I wont even think about writing about it. That is one of the problems I have.
I think I might be writing more on the blog in the future. Next year, it's going to be so weird, because this year, we did most of our works of the computer. Next year, we are going to have to start doing our work by hand again. Hopefully we start doing our homework and everything more often. I don't think our teacher would be as chill as Sutherland is now.
Explain one or two ways your writing has improved (or not) over the semester. Include a few examples from your posts over time, with analysis and links to the original posts, to illustrate how the improvement(s) happened.
For the second semester only: If you want, you can reflect on improvements you've noticed over just the second semester, the entire year, or even multiple years if you have examples of your writing from the more distant past.
One of the ways that my writing has improved is that last year, my English teacher, Ms. Rudd, had helped us write our essays. Well, more like she basically wrote our essays. She gave us most of the sentences and our thesis to write about our papers. Then she would tell us how to write essays. She lets you try it out first, checks if we have done it right. If not, she helps us out, and tells us how to make it better. I think having her class last year has helped me do much better this year all together.
I remember our essays, she basically did them for us. But there were some parts that we had to do them. She gave us topics to write on, then she told us to write a two sentence summary that summarizes the whole story but not detailed. When we didnt do them right, she gives us one.
We did a lot of annotating in that class too. We had lots of pages from the book Romeo and Juliet to read, then she helped us annotate what they were talking about and how they were feeling at the moment. It helped us understand the book more.
There were lots of changes in the way I write, also. For example, this year, I had to start breaking paragraph up at places. Last year, she told us where we were supposed to break our paragraph. On Ms. Rudd's essays, she gave us specific details to write and talk about. She told us what goes on each paragraphs. This year, I had to actually think about where the paragraph should be. If you look at some of my blog posts from the beginning of the school year, you will see that I wrote the whole blog in one big paragraph. For example, Statement Of Purpose, this post about lying, rain, and my phone. Now, I'm starting to separate my posts.
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