Entry #7 Mirrors of Resolution

As all good things that begin, ultimately it has an ending. Looking back on my blog I had seen triumphs and failures but the battle was never at its end, until this entry. I may have won the battle within this class of ENG 101 but the war never ceases when writing is concern.

Taking a look back to the prelude of my blog, I was very over whelmed by the grading expectations. With my past experiences with ENG 091 we only had to write a post and poof done. Not much really went into writing expect it being a some what professional blog. The rhetoric was seemingly not involved. Yet with the advancement of moving to ENG 101 our blogs needed more of a substance that 091 lacked. Hence the concern of the expectations. Even though more things had to be added into our blog, I felt it made me feel that it was worth more than just some dinky assignment that the professor makes us do. It made me feel that I am truly a blogger, in essence an author in this world full of individuals with thoughts and emotions.

The class had four main grading periods for our blog assignments. During the first period was a tough time for me because not only did we have the first post being an instructor lead topic but we also had to choose our second topic. This is where the emotion of being a blogger in itself was born. After reading some elated classmates posts, I began to wonder what will I write about? That was when I realized writing something that was near or even similar to the first entry would suffice.

Grading period two was a little more intrusive than the first. The main topic point was no where near the first period topic. I had to view this new topic in a different means. One that I couldn't help but wonder if it was more towards writing or writing for my audience. After a long couple hours I was finally able to finish my post. Then it hit me! Everything that Prof. Nielson was talking about in class was true. That the rhetoric was a huge part in the inter-workings of being a blogger or even so an author.

Once we moved closer to writing project three, our instructor lead blog was very similar to what was needed to be written for our essay. This in fact help strengthen what was needed for both the blog and essay. Writing in general for the blog helped me understand how to take a view point and move from there. While the first post of the period was about the movie we had watched in class, I noticed that the students had went with a more linear way to post. But, I found my wings were itching to soar.

Now, we came to these final moments of my blog or one would say grading period. The true intentions of the blog experiment can be said in so many different ways. My own view, is like writing your name on a piece of paper as so does everyone else in the class, and putting it in a hat waiting for it to be pulled. But, that piece of paper is our blog and our name is what we write. Our identity, the soul of who we are. The hat is the expanse of the World Wide Web and its infinite wonders with all its ones and zeros in this cyber landscape.