My
growth over the trimester as a reader and writer has improved so but not a
whole lot, from my blogging experience. Although to someone else it may look
like I have greatly improved, as they are look at my writing and reading skills
in a different mindset than me. But over the course of this trimester there is
definitely a difference, which has made my understanding of Hon. English
increase with the skills I have learned from blogging.
My
writing from blogging has only gotten better through out the trimester. I have
learned different techniques to add to my writing. Also what I can add to my
writing to help enhance whatever I am writing. I am also able to pull text
together and show why it helps the understanding of whatever someone/ I might
be reading. I was also able to gain the knowledge of how to blog about certain
topics in the books that I might be currently reading to help my understanding
of what is going on in the text, while putting it in words. For an example of
how I am doing right now for my writing is a portion of a post from a while
back but it shows my writing skills, “ With Emmaline's life you could
compare it to every one or even just myself that people are constantly coming,
going, and staying but there are always bumps in the road that make a big or
small course change. But you could also say those trips along the bumpy road
during this book could make her journey even better or worse. Lastly, she has
to over come her fears and ask her father questions such as why didn't you keep
your promise, why didn’t you respond like your earlier email, etc.” (The
Moon and More), this shows how I pulled ideas from the text and analyzed it
with writing craft, text–world.
As I
just said my reading has improved from blogging because I am able to take a
topic to write about for my book and put it in better understanding for others
and me. With this blogging experience I was also able to look at other peer’s
blogs for support on how to become a better reader and writer. This is because
by looking at someone else’s blog you are able to gain their knowledge on how
to write something better and another way to explain a specific topic or piece
of text. Also with any information I pull to put in my blog I am also thinking
what will logically work, from what I have read so far and deciphered from it.
My writing and reading skills has also
improved from blogging as I am spending more time dedicated to reading my book
and writing more in depth. By being more in depth I am able to pull different techniques
used by the authors such as the text to world, text, self connections which
allows the reader to be partially included in way into the text. With the
writing I am able to blog and reflect on what I am to pull from the text and to
later improve my blog post from earlier blog posts on my blog. Also by
constantly blogging I am able to stay focused on what’s going on in the book
and reflect on what I have read. So what I have stated I can see that I have
actually improved more than what I had originally thought in the beginning of
my growth upon reading and writing skills from blogging.
