Blog 4: Reflection

1.What have you learned about writing academic texts so far? Anything from ideas of audience to invention techniques to thesis and topic sentences can be discussed here. Do not simply repeat whatever notes you took in class--the point is for your thoughts on what we did in class: Did these concepts connect with things you already knew and how did you make these connections? If something was unfamiliar, how did you approach it? What is still puzzling to you about these writing concepts? What are you not sure of regarding them?So far I learned to compare stories to others. In the recent essay and the essay before dealt with comparing. For example I had to compare a situation from U.S history to the text “Allegory of the cave”. Scenarios like this in high school I would have issues trying to write a whole essay on a topic like this. Sometimes I would just give up on myself and not even bother to write the essay. But what helped me a little bit in this situation is read other peoples essay and sort of get an idea of how they do theirs and then it would get easier for me to do mine. 

2) What did you think of the interaction with ENA 099? Does such interaction make blogging more meaningful for you or not? How was writing to someone not in class different from making comments on classmates' blogs? Did trying to critique someone else's summary make you more confident that you know the criteria for a good summary?

In my opinion blogging does not interest me at all so making blogs with ENA 099 doesn’t really make a change. Writing blogs to other classmates doesn’t really make a difference to me. Trying to critique someone else’s summary does not make it more confident for me.

3) Area of reflection of your choice: What else would you like to share with all of us?

What I would like to share with the class is that I am really looking forward to learning more