Final Blog

Blog Reflection

I think that this trimester’s blogging experience has really made me grow as an individual, reader and a writer. I surpassed my goal of reading 3 books this trimester I read 5 books and they were all fantastic. The best one had to be Let Me off at the Top Ron Burgundy and it was hilarious I suggest that you read it sometime. Being on Good reads has really helped me look into more books that I loved reading. It was kind of like when I was in the 4^th grade and my teacher would always read us books after recess. I didn’t know what it was but I always loved those books that she was reading, so the next day I would go to the library and get that book and finish it. Good Reads is like that because I can see what books people are reading and if it looks good to me, I read it. I had some struggles while blogging and it was essential that I got over them to make better blogs. One of the weaknesses that I had was citing the text for statements I had made. Like I would be writing in my blog all these huge acclamations about my book and the characters personality. Or what was going to happen later then I wouldn’t even cite what evidence I had to show that. So over the trimester I started to put in more quotes from the books that I was reading and started to back up my statements a lot better than before. One thing that I had done strong over the trimester was summarizing and making connections to the books that I was Reading. I could summarize and make a lot of connections in the chapters I had read and give you an amazing overview of all the things that were in my chapter. I feel that the quality of my writing has really improved from the beginning of the trimester up to now. As you can see I have my first blog that was about Catching Fire. Then I have my very last blog Let me off at the top. Looking at these two blogs has shown me how much I have changed as a writer. I see the first blog as being very sloppy to start with I had a lot of grammar issues. I didn’t capitalize Finnick’s name for starters. I spelled characterization wrong which I still don’t know how that happened. “I mean some stuff had happened there but in my opinion don't really think it was as suspense full as it was in the arena” that quote from Catching Fire Blog. Using the word stuff was a big mistake and that isn’t going to happen again. In that sentence The I wasn’t capitalized in the original blog post and I’m definitely sure the suspenseful is one word. That sentence had an abundance of mistakes in it and the rest of the paragraph is even worse. I had no textual evidence in my first blog that any of this was even true if I couldn’t even cite it in my blog that was terrible.  The part that really made me want to go back and punch myself straight in the face was the closing. “So the reasons I like this book are the action suspense and the imagery.” I mean are you serious that is the worst thing I have ever seen how do you end a blog with that. There wasn’t even a comma between action and suspense, so that just makes it even better. How do you start a sentence with so I mean if I looked at this I would have though a 6^th grader had written this. Now time to stop hating on myself this much, it is time to go on to my next blog.