Final Exam Paper

Note: without the questions this blog is about 1172 words long

Question #1- Explain one or two ways your writing has improved over the semester. Include a few examples from your posts over time, with analysis, to illistrate how the improvements happened.

-My ability to write blogs have improved academically (meaning my academic vocabulary and sentence structure has improved.) and has helped me focus more on one topic rather than doing a topic about cancer then writing about barnie. My blogs in the beginning were about 2 paragraphs long but now they are on a average 3-4. My first blog-(http://chubbychasers-superjelly.blogspot.com/2009/09/stuff.html) and here is one of my more current blog (http://chubbychasers-superjelly.blogspot.com/2009/10/me-me-me-me-me-me-me.html) As you can clearly see they are very different almost as if two different people wrote them. My first blog has a good topic but doesn't really focus on it.

-The first link is a blog from the beginning of the year about what i was going to write about, its only 3 short paragraphs but when you look at it at first you might think what kind of unintelligent person wrote this garbage but when you look at my newer one it is a bout 4 paragraphs and the paragraphs are very long.

Lets compare them: (2 different paragraphs from 2 different blogs)

my first blog this is my longest paragraph-The topics i have chosen to put on my blog are cars,movies, games and food. I want to write about cars because I love them. Without cars there wouldn't be any girls. For example, an expensive car will give you a nice girl those cars would be ferraris lamborghinis and Mclarens. A not expensive normal looking car (nissan, honda, toyota) will only get you normal girls and drunk hookers.

my more recent blog this is my shortest paragraph-Street soccer is not common because people think its a ghetto sport, but when you look online, these people that play can beat the best world cup players. Their foot work is extremely amazing, if you want to see these clips just search up street soccer on youtube or any other video providing sites.

the two paragraphs are very similar in length but when you look at it my way, the second one is the shortest and yet it is the same as my paragraph's longest. Not only that but my focus on them are different. My first blog post talks about what i am going to blog about then my focus went to expensive and inexpensive cars. My second paragraph stayed on focus about street soccer and where you can find more information about it.

Question #4-How do things you read influence what you write about or how you write it?

I usually read National Geographic magazine, or books by my favorite sci-fi author, Isaac Asimov. The National Geographic magazines influence what I write about because they usually offer a good source of interesting information. During Quick writes when we didn't have to write about a certain topic and that we could write whatever we wanted i would write about things from the magazine like robotics and cyborg people. Isaac Asimov is my influence on how I want to write things. He writes his stories pretty dark like from the book I-robot, When we were writing about the girl and the box i started wrting the beginning kind of dark.

This was the beginning of my quickwrite- She touched the box in her pocket then smiled sinisterly as she entered the elevator door. She kept her hands in her pocket for as long as she had the box. She tried not to get attention for the box had valuable items in worth more than 1500 mens' deaths.

That is only part of the beginning. As you could see its kind of dark and sinister. Its like the beginning of one of Isaac's books. In I-robot he starts it off with the robot murdering its own creator after the creator taught the robot so much.

When I read books, it seems i tend to blog about them when given the chance. This blog is about one of the books i read http://chubbychasers-superjelly.blogspot.com/2009/12/lost-symbol.html its about a book called Lost Symbol by Dan Brown. This is one of the ways my reading has influenced what i write about.

I also like to read comics because the story lines are more fascinating because they are expressed with pictures. The pictures help me to develop ideas for example the little bit from my mysterious box quickwrite, i got that idea from one of my comics. (i can't remember which one though.) Comics like the batman, ghost rider, and spawn are my favorites, they have a lot of dark feeling in them in which i favor. Batman is about a crazy person in the arkham asylum, Ghost rider and Spawn are both warriors from Hell battling with Heaven. If i could imply this kind of dark aura into my writing this would probably freak you out but hey... i like it.

Question #8-How do you like having a blog? How has blogging changed the way you write, the way you think, or the way you think about writing?

Having a blog has definitely changed how i write. It made me write more frequently and has changed my way thinking about it. When i first came into the class i didn't like writing about topics because they are always boring, that's one of the reasons i write off topic, but now that we have blogs and we could write about anything, it makes me a happier writer. If i didn't have a blog my writing wouldn't be as smooth because there would be a lot of writers block. I treat blogs as if they were quick writes, for example i would see how fast i can write 300 words, and how long will it take me to write 400 words etc. My time for 300 words varies between about 4-7 minutes depending on the subject.

I love having a blog around even though i don't really expect anyone to read them its just fun to look at when I'm bored. ( not that my blogs are so boring i have to be dying to read them.) When i look at my blogs i can't really choose my favorite or my least favorite(actually i can choose my least favorite) Its like dealing with children, they all have their characteristics and differences that make them unique. ( got that from a movie) My blogs are all unique because some are more interesting than others and some are more academically advanced than others, some may even have both those traits but that's one of the way blogs have changed my way of looking at writing.

Blogging, to me is definitely a better way of writing than normal essays because it changes depending on your mood and you don't need alot of steps to it. A normal essay would take about 1-2 hours to complete due to editing and brainstorming and planning out the format. But blogs is just doing it in one clean run. Not only can you write about anything you can also use your creativity to change how other people look at things. A normal essay is about a certain topic in which everyone is going to write about so all the essays would be the same. A blog however has more variety and you probably learn more looking at blogs than essays.