Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Concluding Blog Post
Blogging has been very interesting this year. I never saw myself as a person who would blog on any topic week after week and find myself interested in it, it just never seamed to me that I would find a topic worth writing about over and over. Being able to write about my own topic was nice though and made it a lot easier to manage through the semester. The freedom to write about your own topic really got me eager to write, well maybe not eager but I was not upset about writing. Making sure to write about something that really interested me, I chose working out because that was the thing I did most in my life. Week after week it I researched different lifting techniques for different muscle groups. Some things I had already knew about, but I also learned a lot from this. I learned much more about my topic. I not only learned more about the topic that I was writing about, but I also learned things like in text citations and and in text quotations. Overall I think what I learned the most is how simple it is to write a big paper. 7000 plus words throughout the semester is what we averaged throughout all our work on our one subject. What we did throughout this semester was not extremely hard work by any means, so knowing that I can now write a large paper really helps for my future. I did not know that this was all adding up to show that you can write a paper by breaking it down into sections like how I did, but I do know that from this class it will make more successful with writing papers in the future.
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I am thrilled that this was a good experience for you! I know some writers dread writing academically, so blogging is sort of like sneaking spinach into the brownies: getting the academic texts presented in a new way (as though you're getting a treat).
ReplyDeleteI have great faith that your future writing endeavors will be good ones. Just continue to pay attention to the little things like phrasing and word choice. Remember: audiences *want* to believe you; they'll just take any excuse to exit a text when the text fails to attend to the little issues.