I will be the first to admit that blogging was most definitely not something I had done before. I mean to be completely honest I never even saw it as something I would have even attempted. Although I will have to say that I am glad this class required me to do it. Blogging is something that has helped me in ways I never expected. It did help me with learning some of the do’s and don'ts with writing but the biggest aspect of it was learning that writing is not a one-way street or one-sided discussion. It is a two-sided conversation between the writer and reader. Writing goes far beyond just slapping some words on a piece of paper or typing some words with no meaning. Using the blogging platform to produce our own postings and then reading others to comment back helped me realize that. Not only did it help me realize that, but it also helped me gain more confidence with writing while helping me break out of my confined anxiety shell I tend to keep myself in. After seeing where my fellow classmates and myself started at the beginning of this semester to where we are now, I can say confidently that I feel blogging has had a positive impact on us all. I know for myself it has done wonders. I look forward to taking the knowledge I have learned from blogging with me throughout my college journey and beyond.
Writing in general is already a daunting task for myself. When you start to have guidelines added in such as having to use a certain format like MLA style it becomes even more so then. Forming Proper MLA style for academic documents is an area I know that I need more work in. When it comes to the MLA format within my academic paper my biggest weakest is forming the cite page. I know that I must give the sources the proper credit. I know that when adding the citations, I need to make sure I put the author, the title, the publisher, the published date, the URL, the accessed date. The part I struggle with the most though is knowing what parts need to italic and which parts should not. I double guess myself and then I am at a point of uncertainty preventing me from finishing a correct work cited page. I intend to clarify my struggles with the work cited page in MLA format for my academic papers by doing thorough research on how a proper citation is formed and the aspects of it. I can also ...
Your post made me happy to read! I feel the same, and you brought up a great point about learning that writing is not always for ourselves. The peer reviews and blog posts made me feel a lot more alert about "writing to be read" rather than for a grade. Understanding what your reader wants to hear was an important lesson.
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