Self-Critique Blog Post

Overall, my blogging as a whole was fairly decent. I felt I made good, logical points and arguments in each post and I tried my best to provide thought-provoking arguments for readers to respond with on my posts. Although some blog assignments were easy and others were quite difficult, I think I did a good job by completing all of the blogs and reaching the length requirement on each and every blog I posted. 

There was not one, particular post that stood out to me as being my best work because I thought at least four or five of them were good, but if I must choose one I would have to say my “How To Say Nothing In 500 Words” post was really good. I know it was good work because I received three comments from classmates on the post which told me the blog post was interesting enough for my classmates to chime in on their opinions. Also, I felt this post was one of my better ones because I fully understood the assignment. Sometimes, the blog assignments have so many components to respond to that it gets difficult to post everything without contradicting myself. The article I had to respond to from this post was easy to grasp, so therefore, it was simple to write my opinion about it. Also , I liked this post from the beginning because I was able to learn something from the reading portion. It was one of the posts that I got to take notes on because it clarified the “do’s” and “don’t’s” in college essay writing. 

I know in the previous paragraph I mentioned how it was hard for me to distinguish a particular post that was my best piece writing and I feel that statement goes both ways. I had some good posts and I had some bad ones as well. There was not one, single bad post because I felt there were a few do to the tedious amount of posts we had to complete and the more difficult and time consuming ones also. One that I know was bad was the last one I completed, “Annotated Bibliography”. My writing was not the bad part, but rather my lack of understanding the prompt is what made my post bad. I thought we were assigned the post as a response to our own preliminary essays, but I later realized (after I completed the post) that we were to respond to a classmates preliminary essay. I was embarrassed I made such a mistake but I’m not going to respond to my own essay in my final paper. 

By doing these posts, I learned a lot about writing. The main thing I realized was how difficult it can be to create a good, solid post that must be five hundred words and rambling thoughts are not to be included. I’m still learning to pay more attention to the prompts and to plan out each post before writing it, rather than trying to just write until I reach the five hundred word mark. 

Annotated Bibliography Post

Article- “Woven to Last” (2007) Retrieved From: 

http://www.articlesbase.com/religion-articles/a-christian-marriage-woven-to-last-134642.html 

I chose this article to help support my reasoning behind my argument regarding marriage from a Christian standpoint. It gives a detailed account including three important aspects that are supposed to make a marriage work between a man and a woman. “When a married couple takes Christian wedding vows, they celebrate a special bond of love, hope and faith between a man, a woman and God.” This article provides evidence that there are many references about marriage in the Bible which will be helpful when I am trying to defend the argument. Also, it says nothing but positive ways to keep a marriage alive for people who may be struggling with marriage problems. Since divorce is so rampant now, I want to encourage readers that a marriage can last and there are ways to make it happen and this article makes a simple claim that love, hope and faith between man, his wife and the Lord, will ensure a lasting marriage. 

Article- “Divorce Rates in America-Why so high?” (2009) Retrieved From:

http://marriage101.org/divorce-rates-in-america/ 

I think when writing a response essay it is important to have statistics about the topic the author is writing about. This article provides statistics and ratings dealing with divorce in America according to different age groups. I want to point out how serious and real divorce has become and this shows the progression of how even couples in their twenties are divorcing. The most useful part of this article is the last paragraph where it talks about how children are affected in a divorce. It is very important to address this issue because its one thing when a couple with no children divorces because innocent family is not hurt, but when a married couple with children split, it can be devastating for the kids. Since this is in an issue I have dealt with personally, I think this article will really help me back up my opinion as to why divorce should at least try to be stopped instead of just giving in like our culture seems to think is normal behavior. 

Article-”Divorce on TV” (2010) Retrieved from: 

http://www.womansdivorce.com/divorce-on-tv.html 

This article is very helpful towards my disagreement with how media portrays divorce. What people do not realize is children that are going through a divorce will watch television and if whatever program they are watching happens to be about divorce, those kids are going to compare and contrast what they are going through to what they see on television. This particular article really tells a lot about how children seem to always pay attention to what they see and hear even when what they are watching is an inaccurate depiction of what divorce consists of emotionally and physically. It is important to keep children from seeing only the bad aspects of divorce and television really dramatizes this in divorce stories so the reason I like this article is because it provides some ways to protect children from getting the wrong perspective about divorce by simply catching what they are viewing and turning the channel. This article is a very good resource for my paper when it comes to writing about children and how they are affected by divorce.