Who am I ? as a writer ....

 So ... I am back to this topic. It's been already ten weeks .... wow ;;

 I said, I am reader as a writer in beginning of this quoter. I think I am still reader but with some different aspects now. This blog helped to identify my identity; teen-ager savvy(according to West haha;). And I feel like I applied this identity to my essay without noticing.

 I focused on fluency of essay most in this quoter. Before this class, I paragraphs were never connected and and changed my thoughts about sentence little bit. I was usually think "Is this sentence make sense? " but now it's more like "is this sentence tells people what I want to tell?" I still have little hard time with last part but ...  I think I can handle it better

SLO Reflection: Critical Thinking and Writing

 Let's see .... It's been almost 3 month since I took the college academic writing. This class was like way beyond my level but I had to take it ....( I thought all I have to take is math and science when I come to college .... but I guess not !!!).

 ANYWAY! critical think skill was like second hardest thing for me to do in English because every time I read something or try to do something, I wasn't sure that I'm understanding concepts or texts well. I was think I am translate it to some wrong way. That's  way I was had to make sure what I'm thinking is right or not. But after understand what the things are about then I got some critical skill !!! Like the book "Blogging", I was sure it was actually talking about blog itself !! Actually I wasn't even sure this course is all about blog just from description of blogging ....

 Okay,,, now writing ... I HATE IT WITH MY PASSION. It's not that I'm don't like it I just can't write!! But at least as much as I'm writing essay, I'm getting better I think. I just have a lot (I mean A LOT) of problems with grammar.  I really want to write a good paper though.

SLO Reflection: Close Reading and Research

   Since I can to this class, I had to read some books and articles. For me, English is secondary language so it was almost impossible to understand the book or article without close reading. Close reading helps me to understand faster and better. Like West's article, it would been impossible for me to understand before the class if I didn't know how to do close reading.I think I can use my close reading skill now throughout the whole college life.

   There was so many database I could use from library website. I remember when I do research paper in English class at high school that English teacher told me there is going to be way more data to use in college for my paper. And also it's easier!! The core lab and library helped me how to research and that's why I was able to find source for my paper easier.

Performance, Feedback, Revision!

The guy talked about revision by compare it with revolution. Quite a impactive performance he had; it influences me to revise my paper. I was so worried about my paper but I guess I can write it, get feedback, and rewrite it. Performance(draft) -> feedback(Riki) -> revision(re-write) and I will eventually get to the point every my paper is revolutionized(?). So revision is the steps that will get me to the higher level. One think that sucks is that I can't get bunch of (like 100 of) feedbacks ....

Essay2 Progress

  So far, I made some changes. First of all, I changed my option from option2 to option1. I couldn't find the best blog the fit on my essay and I was just wonder around my blog and realize it was kinda fit in with my essay so gave a shot. Maybe the reader for my reader's review may got confused on that ,,,(sorry). It's only three pages long so far but I think I can make it long as times go by.
  I'm not sure I'm at right on the point on my essay, feels like I'm writing about different thesis or topic ..... (Hope not !!). My focus is what type of blog I have or blogger am I.  Tried to find my one identity.

My plan for Essay 2

   My planing to compare my article writer's experiences and my experiences with the blog. Also I need to analyse "what is blog" more deeper to make more argument and explanation.  But I'm struggling with choosing a blog and understanding the articles and plot for the essay well enough.

The Essay 2 and Article

On school library database, I was able to fine the article that might help on writing my Essay 2.

The article is: " Understanding class blogs as a tool for language development" by Doris de Almeida Soares. The author was a teacher for the EFL students in a language school in Brazil and while he(or she) teaching those students, he got the two major questions; "a) did my students see our blog as a learning tool? and b) what was blogging like in other language teaching contexts?" This article starts off from the brief history of blog and all the way to answer those two questions. And the articles are based on his(or her) experiences with blogs and the students he had.

I'm going to focus more on the article about first question to identify the blog and the writer of blog. And this article is talking about usage of blog that we are doing in class right now so I thought it would be make me little easier.