Wednesday, July 17, 2013
Reflection
As I sit here to type my “reflection blog” for my English 101 Class, I think of my struggles and success. I do think that it has gotten easier to just sit and write about things! I guess a blog is just your own private thoughts! I blogged about religion, money, my kids, my husband, my friends, and random other things! It got easier! When I first started blogging I would sit down and ponder what I was even going to write about, what one subject could I write 300 words about?! Then I would start writing. I would realize that my blog would be all over the place, I would title my blog alphabet and by the end of it, it was doing subtraction! That didn’t matter. This blog was about free writing, so if I got off on a tangent that took me around the state, then it didn’t matter because I was expressing myself through writing! I think it depends on what is on my mind, I noticed if I was really focused on one topic, I stayed pretty well on topic, but if it wasn’t a topic I was too passionate about I would ramble about other things! I don’t know if I can say that this helped me as a writer, in terms of better punctuation, spelling, sentence structure, or whatever else, but I definitely feel like it made typing my thoughts much easier! I would like to say that this class has helped me as a writer, but I don’t know that yet! I have struggled with the fact that it is now nearing the end of week 7 and I have yet to receive one piece of feedback on my writing. Practice makes perfect, and blogging is definitely practice of writing, which is wonderful; unless I have been doing it all wrong. If I have been doing it all wrong, that is not good because now I am set in my ways and have yet to have someone tell me that I am not doing something right! I didn’t like or dislike this assignment, I just didn’t know what to write about at first and the more I blogged, the more natural it became. I also did my extended learning opportunity and I enjoyed that, I love getting to know more about other people! I am concerned because so many blogs, only had 1 or 2 posts on it. I just like confirmation to know what I am doing is right, so until I am told otherwise, what I have been doing is right! Thanks for opening the blogging door. I have actually thought about making a blog on my youngest son’s health. I would love to be able to look back at when he was 3 and where we struggled so when he is 10 we can have such a huge testimony!
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I see that this blogging thing will help writing skills and progressive writing after a short time. I agree that the blogs are kind of a private way to get things down. I was with you on the beginning of all the blogs, I sat around wondering what exactly I'd talk about. I like your blog posts. Practice does make perfect and the more times this is done the more detail we give. It is starting to become a natural talent now.
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