blog 7

Before taking ENG101, I had to take ESL classes and ENG099 class because my writing was not good, and there are some problems of grammar, word choices, and ideas. However, at the end of this semester, I think that my writing is better than before and I strongly think that one major reason was posting blogs. As I experienced several blogs, I strongly think that posting my writings on the blog has helped me a lot in many ways.

First, many blogs had to be posted on the blog cite every week. That forced me to practice writing at least once a week. Now I think that my writing skill is getting better than before I take this class.  Second, all the blogs that I did are exposed to public. That kind of characteristic also helped me to find correct way.  To make sure that I did in a correct way, I could check how other classmates did on the same topic. As I checked other blogs, I found out that I did wrong in some ways or I did properly. To be able to look at others’ blog also gave me some ideas when I totally did not know what to do or what we had to mention to response to the topic. Third, blogs made me more concentrate on topics critically other than taking care of grammar mistakes or other small parts. Writing blog meant that just think about the contents and it lead me to try to write about to fit on our topics, so it was very helpful to come up with my ideas. Forth, posting blog on the internet was also very convenient for us to post and edit when it is necessary. Whenever I feel mine is not correct, I could edit my blogs anytime and anywhere.  Fifth, some blogs that professor commented on them were especially effective. I could check the professor’s feedback and checked my problems on my blog. I also could check other students’ blog and see what they made mistakes and I also learn something from their works as well.

On the other hand, there also are some minor negative things I want to mention. In some way, if I see other papers, even if I tried to make it in my own words, I kind of tend to follow their ideas so finally my writing looked similar to other papers.

Practicing writing on the blogs is best experience to improve my skills and my critical ideas.