Blog Reflection

        The quality of my writing has improved greatly over the trimester. Not only have I made my posts longer and more in depth, but I added specific details and quotes to explain concepts to the people reading my blog. I also think that some of my newer posts helped people understand a novel or short story that they were reading too. One way I made my posts better was by including textual evidence in my posts to support what I was thinking. Providing textual evidence would help people understand what was happening and image things in their head. In my old post I just stated that the character in my novel was sad and lonely but I didn’t provide any evidence for people to imagine things. In my new post I provided textual evidence to show examples of imagery in my short story. By providing this quote I helped give people a vivid image of what was happening. I also improved by showing what I think in my posts. In my old post I just wrote what the author said but in the new one I had a paragraph of what I thought and how I felt.

         One thing I struggled with was finding something to blog about. It was really hard to read enough to find something to blog about that was on my rubric. I overcame this by realizing that if I just read any article I could blog about it and that it didn’t have to be a book. Also, they changed the rules so that you didn’t have to blog about things on the rubric. This gave relief in a sense that I didn’t have to finish all of those by the end of the trimester. Knowing this, I just read whatever I could get my hands on and even if I didn’t finish the book, I would still blog about it. A strength that I had with blogging was getting down my ideas and making predictions. I would start a book and make some predictions. Then I would explain those predictions and some people would comment on whether or not they agree or disagree with my predictions. I set my reading goal to seven books and I didn’t meet it. I think this was because in the past years I didn’t keep track of how many books I read every trimester so I didn’t know what to set it to. I read four books this trimester but I think that seven was a good number and I will try for that next trimester. I didn’t really use goodreads.com that much but I did like how you would get recommended books for you. I think if we would’ve talked about it more I would’ve used it but I sort of forgot about it though it could be really useful. Over the course of the trimester I think I have become a better reader. When I read, I know go more in depth of the reading to understand the whole context of the text. Usually I just skip over the stuff I don’t understand but now I have learned that I need to read the entire thing. I think that becoming a better reader also made me a better writer this trimester.