Blog Reflection

When I was told we would be maintaining a blog for this class, I must say I was actually suprised. I have read other people's blogs before, but never kept my own. Plus, I was really nervous because that meant that everybody else in class would be writing everything I was writing and I wasn't too comfortable with that. After a couple of postings though, I learned by having other people read them I was becoming a better writer.

My weakness as a writer is that I am very unorganized, and by having so many people go over my posts a couple of days a week, it made me more aware of what i was writing and paid greater detail to it. I think blogging is a great way to make students more comfortable with their writing because it is a less formal way to do the same things you would be printing out on white paper.

I also learned a lot from reading other people's posts about their thoughts and views of what we would be reading about. Sometimes, if I would be confused about something, reading what other people would comment about would help me to understand things more. For example; while first reading Ceremony I would not really get the different ideas of time and exactly what was going on with the main character Tayo at times, and it would be a comfort to know that I was not the only one. And sometimes, reading others thoughts on the novel would broaden my ideas about it as well. So overall, I really did enjoy the class and felt like I learned a lot from Dr. Rouzie, and from my fellow students as well.