My Blogging Experience

Blogging is my freedom. It kind of feels like the movie, Freedom Writers, in a way. I feel that blogging as taken my writing to a whole new level. At first, I would hate when teachers in high school would tell us it was time to pull out our pencils and write that long five paragraph essay. It was hard for me to come up with the sentences to write in those essays. Those essays just felt like a hassle.

Writing and reading were the two thing that I probably hated most in life. That changed when I found books that I liked to read and when we started writing these blogs. I exactly like writing more now from my blogging experience. I enjoy just writing how I feel and lessons that I have learned in my life. The blog has improved my writing in the sense of content because when I write now I care more about the words that I am saying instead of grammatical errors. I believe that grammatical errors are important to fix, but the message is what really matters.

The limitation with writing the blog is that the public is viewing your post so you have to watch what you say, such as terms that the average person would not know of. I do struggle with think of what to write sometimes, but I just take a break from the computer until a topic pops into my head then I start writing. What I enjoy most about blogging is putting my own words out there for the world to see. Blogging is away for me to escape and get my situations off of my chest.

My Review of Peer Review

I actually enjoyed the peer review process. At first, I thought that this was a crazy idea to read the work of other class members because at my high school we did not really do any type of peer review. When we did do it mostly involved sitting in a group pretending to listen to your classmates’ work and not really give any feedback. You always felt that only the teacher was allow to judge your writing since the teacher was suppose to by the writing expert at the time, and you felt like your peers where not able to give any significant feedback that would help your paper.

With the peer review this week it was really a struggle to get the nerves to read my work out loud to my group. I was never the one in school who raised their hand to read a paragraph out of a book or I would try to duck from the teacher so he or she would not call on me. But reading out loud did help me catch my own mistakes in my paper.

I was happy that with this peer review that we actually had to give our opinion on the papers we had. It wasn’t sugar and spice and everything nice. It was the truth on how your peers felt about what they were reading and what they believed that you should considering doing to make the paper better. I learned that my peers like details a lot. Also, I learned from reading and my own writing that it is not the better idea to jump from topic to topic because it is confusing to the reader. Overall, great experience.