Blog 7: Reflection on blogging

In my experience, in the past few weeks using blogger has allowed me to compare my progress from the beginning of English 101 until now. It has also given me the option to compare and contrast my progress to that of my classmates although I must admit I haven’t taken full advantage of this perk. Compared to writing in a journal, blogger gives others the option of critiquing my work whether they chose to or not which is beneficial in the sense that I can see my flaws from people who do not necessarily know me and their opinion would not be biased. The drawbacks to having blogger is that it is a permanent display of my writing which I may not be fully comfortable with people seeing late on down the road but at the same token it shows my level of writing at this time in my life. With having this blog, I have seen in what areas of my writing I excel in and what areas in can work on which are expanding my vocabulary and working on not getting lost in my idea and focusing more on the topic at hand.

Ultimately, I do not feel that knowing everything that I have posted on my blog is public has change the way I view myself as a writer. I think my focus is more on me completing our assignments and assessing how I can complete these task in the best way I can that not only shows my understanding of the topic, but that I challenged myself. I believe that if blogging has changed me as a writer it has been for the better. An example of this is the minimum word use and the time deadline that is assigned to us. I feel this has helped me to organize my ideas quicker and make sure that I have the ability to write lengthy blogs.

Coming into this class, I felt that one of my weaknesses was not writing essays or journals, but actually beginning them. It has always been a struggle for me to clearly state what it is that I would be writing about in the first place because there was so many ideas that I wanted to talk about and had trouble staying focused with what I originally was discussing but over this period of time blogging has helped me slowly eliminate that issue.