Overall, everyone's blog posts have improved, including mine. At first they were all iffy because not everyone is used to writing how they want to write. Most people are used to a thesis, five paragraph essay, and a conclusion. It was a challenge, but the class accepted it. I admit I haven't done the last two blog posts, so I haven't read through everyone's blogs, but they have all gotten so much better. You can see how creative and intellectual the class is now that we are almost done with this course.
Me personally? I think I've improved quite a lot. I was all over the place and trying way to hard to write an essay in my first couple of blogs, but then I was finally able to let go of the structured essays and just write how I want to write. Yes I still do the paragraph form but that's the easiest way for me to write and organize my thoughts. I'm still so used to the rigorous body work of essays and straight forward prompts from high school that it's hard to get my mind to be creative sometimes. I've become a lot more comfortable with writing since we've been doing blog posts. It might be because I get to express my feelings and opinions more, or the fact that we can write mostly about anything because of the broad topics, but everything that we've been doing has definitely improved my writing skills. Believe me, I used to be an even more horrific writer.
~Jocelyn Pitlick
Me personally? I think I've improved quite a lot. I was all over the place and trying way to hard to write an essay in my first couple of blogs, but then I was finally able to let go of the structured essays and just write how I want to write. Yes I still do the paragraph form but that's the easiest way for me to write and organize my thoughts. I'm still so used to the rigorous body work of essays and straight forward prompts from high school that it's hard to get my mind to be creative sometimes. I've become a lot more comfortable with writing since we've been doing blog posts. It might be because I get to express my feelings and opinions more, or the fact that we can write mostly about anything because of the broad topics, but everything that we've been doing has definitely improved my writing skills. Believe me, I used to be an even more horrific writer.
~Jocelyn Pitlick