Blog Entry #13

 There is so much I have learned throughout this course and I truly believe that this blog helped me remember everything I learned. It was very nice being able to write my thoughts, ideas and new learnings down in my blog for me to go back and look at. I really enjoyed being able to reflect on what I have learned as well. I am someone who needs to write everything down to really understand what I learned or just to help me collect my thoughts so this has helped a whole lot for me. 

I believe that I have reached all of the learning outcomes of this course on page 1 of the syllabus. The blog definitely helped and contributed a lot to my learning outcomes as well. As far as the role of purpose of audience in writing, this helped me a lot while writing my blog. I knew I was writing to my classmates as well as you (Dr. Jones). I was able to shift my thoughts and writing to write to the people I knew were going to be reading my blogs. I also think that the genre workshop has helped me on the journal genre. 

I learned the type of writing I can do when writing in a blog. I can use my own personal thoughts and input. It is far from being a formal paper or letter. I really enjoyed being able to reflect my thoughts and understandings without having to focus on being formal while writing it. It was nice to be able to write it the way I would explain it to someone if I were just having an informal conversation with them. This is how I talk most of the time so it was something I enjoyed doing. I am someone who struggles to write formally and find big words to sound more sophisticated therefore the blogs were something more suitable for me. 

As far as the rest of the learning outcomes go, I do believe my reading and writing have tied in with my comprehension and composition process as well. As I said before, being able to write down my thoughts about what I read really helped me with my comprehension. It's equivalent to someone taking notes but instead writing out all of your thoughts on the material. This was something that was very helpful for me. Overall I really enjoyed the blog and wish I was able to do this over a paper any day!