The most challenging part about working with these posts is the subject
matter. The texts we responded to are not widely known and so knowing my
audience could be anyone anywhere, I struggled with how much to describe. Of
course anyone in my class who read the essay will understand what I am talking
about but other than that, my posts seem a bit meaningless. I have another
class blog where we write about common knowledge ideas and pop culture. I enjoy
writing those posts more.
I was pleasantly surprised at how the length of my blog posts felt less
and less of a chore. Writing upwards of 250 words at first seemed daunting and
was not as easy as it seems. Now my posts are easily double the requirement. I
attribute half of the ease to repetition of blogging and the other half to our
class text Rewriting. Harris helps a
great deal when I often don’t know where to begin when commenting on another
work. I refer to his 5 steps and immediately I have numerous ideas of what to
write.
I find that since blogging, I am more apt to open the newspaper or pull
up Yahoo! News. When I read I now am reading more for deep understanding and
connections than anything (of course except when I am reading for “fun”). I’ll
read about literacy in WRIT and then connect that to the social implications of
literacy my SOCI class is talking about. Or, I will read and instead ‘just
reading’ I continuously find myself writing question marks or exclamation marks
in the margins. My attitude toward reading and writing on the web though has
stayed about the same. I still prefer to read something in print – despite the environmental
effects. As far as writing on the web,
it’s growing on me. That’s all for now, stay tuned for UNIT 2!
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