Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Blog Posts


Blog posts are helping me prepare for my first paper because I am collecting ideas from the topics I have been studying so far.  Reading the texts that have been assigned and posting blogs about them is all practice for the formal papers.  Keeping myself constantly working on these blogs  is getting me more comfortable with reading, writing, prewriting, taking notes etc.  I can post blogs about anything and get feedback from classmates, so logically I could post ideas for my paper and ask my piers to give me feedback.  Sometimes coming up with ideas can be very difficult for me, so that section in our textbook we read about all different types of prewriting helped me tremendously.  Prewriting techniques such as free writing and stream of consciousness both begin with writing about something that may be completely insignificant to the assignment, but the point is that it opens up your mind to create new ideas that can ultimately be used in a formal paper.   If I am struggling to find ideas for my paper I can create a blog just to get my mind working and I might end up with a new idea by the time my blog is posted.   

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