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.