Reflection
The quality of my
writing has gotten progressively better due to more practice and reading. One
example of this is in my first blog post I have three grammar mistakes and in
my newer post I have only one. This is a quick example of how my writing got more
refined over the trimester. This helps the reader and shows improvements in
quality by having not as many grammatical errors. Another example of my writing
quality growth is the length of which my post was near the end compared to the
beginning. You might think that this is a quantity over quality but the length
of my newer post had more in it with fewer mistakes. I also added in my newer
post interactive and viewer friendly comments. I asked questions like “You
might ask why do I like the series so much?” I also add a closing sentence
talks to the viewer, “Thats all for now, I am close to finishing the 3rd book
and moving on to the 4th and by the way, they keep getting better. :)” Adding
questions and comments to the reader to help them get actively engaged shows
improvement on quality because I have entertained the viewer more than I did in
the beginning which is a main objective to be reached in blog posts. Since I am
more viewer friendly and open up the reader more they can find enjoyment through
connections. When I wrote my blog post a
month after my beginning I felt that my blog posts started to achieve the
blogger type writing style more than an essay type of writing. This has helped
in quality because I can write in different formats and have expanded my
comfort zone as a reader and increased my writing abilities.
One thing I struggled
with was the ability to change my writing style by using more casual terms
rather than fancy terms used in essays. I overcame this challenge to make my
blogs more real and authentic by trying to write my posts as if I was talking
to someone in a friendly conversation. What would I say if I was talking to my
friend about the book, do I use big words with my friends, etc. I think that
this change helped my quality of my blog post by creating a more authentic me
reflected in my writing instead of the cheesy words to impress my teachers. A strength I had in my posts was the dedication
to reading books and telling my true feelings instead of hiding to seem normal.
This strength helped a lot because I always had material to talk about where
some people didn’t read and had to write a ton about Romeo and Juliet instead
of books they want to read. This made it easier to want to post blogs and make
them lengthier rather than getting them over with as fast as I can. I did not
meet my reading goal of 10 books in the trimester which I knew was not going to
achieve but pushed me to try. Last year I read a total of 10 books all year
which was a pitiful amount but I wasn’t pushed to read or challenged. I was
impressed that I read 6 books in the trimester and am happy with my reading abilities.
Next English trimester I will try to achieve this goal. I used goodreads.com a
lot to help with book recommendations which helped me get into the Heroes of
Olympus series which I enjoyed a lot. I think that it helped me connect to
other people through books although I stopped updating and checking near the
end of the book. I have improved as a reader throughout the trimester a lot.
One example is that in the beginning I read one page per minute or so and now I
read 2 pages in a minute or so which helped me finish more books in a lot
faster time. Another thing that I improved on as a reader was connecting with
the author and the book for more enjoyment. Near the end of the trimester I read
a lot more and enjoyed books a lot more also. Overall I grew as both a reader
and a writer over the course of this trimester which is great.
