blog discourse reflection essay assignment

ENG 250 Rouzie Blog Discourse Reflection Essay

Read over all of your blog writings and comments you wrote on others’ posts, plus the comments written by others for your posts.

Reflect on this writing by considering the following prompts and then write a 600-900 word essay (using “I”). The essay should be proofread and spell-checked etc. Spilt Czech airs doughnut cat itch owl heir airs.

Your essay should cover the prompts without using them to structure the essay. In other words, this is an essay, not a set of answers to a list of questions. Feel free to include pertinent thoughts not elicited by the prompts.

Be reflective, be candid, be thoughtful. Write well.

Due: Weds. March 18 by 5:00 pm. Either post it to your blog or email it to me as an attached document. If you post it to the blog, please use returns to create white space between paragraphs.

Prompts:
Compare posts from early in the term with those later on. What differences between early and later do you notice? Describe differences. Try to explain the cause of any differences.

Blog discourse is public, out there on the web for anyone to read. How did this affect the way you wrote for it? What audience(s) did you imagine when writing? (The professor? Your class peers? Both? Outside readers? All of the above?) How did how you imagined your audience affect how you wrote for the blog? (Jeez that’s a mouthful.)

Reflect on your comments on others’ posts. How do you see them contributing to others’ learning?

Reflect on others’ comments on your posts. How do you see them contributing to your learning?

Consider the qualities of your blog writing. Are you satisfied with it generally? What posts do you consider to be your best and strongest? Which your worst? Which in between? Explain what makes you classify the posts as best, worst, in between.

Reflect on how writing about course readings for the blog helped or did not help your understanding of the readings, on your understanding of textual analysis. Comment on our use of various concepts and terms and your application of those to readings.