Blog Posts of the WeekBlog Posts of the Week are a showcase of student-curated blog posts, highlighting exemplary blog posts that demonstrate innovative uses of key rhetorical elements of class blog posts. Students vote each week for the top two blog posts (and justify their decision) using the polls I post here. Winners earn bragging rights and other perks to be decided upon by us at the beginning of the semester. Archives
April 2015
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1/25/2015 03:42:03 am
Personally my favorite weekly blog post is Cindy's post.
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1/25/2015 05:34:23 am
I enjoyed reading Dianna's second blog post. In her blog post, she gave us extra backgrounds about the author and interviews related to the writing. I like the way she arranged the photos and the words. In many of the posts I read, I noticed that many of us have nice pictures but have different ways of arranging them. Sometimes, too many pictures is distracting, misguiding the readers to focus on pictures rather than what we wrote. I think it will be so much more engaging if we can put other elements to our blog posts, such as music, slide shows, videos, etc. These elements will definitely make the blog posts more interesting to read.
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Yuelin Guo (Dianna)
1/25/2015 06:54:18 am
I think most of us did a better job on the blog post than last week. I like Xena's page for she did a great job summarizing the two articles and the pictures she put on her webpage. Instead of putting the pictures of the author, which is what most of us did, she uses pictures that can related to the thesis of the articles. Presenting a picture of several Indian women wearing traditional Indian clothes and walking on street in the US reveals the idea of Indian immigrants, which is one of the thing Lahiri presents in her writing. I like Helen putting a map of Rhode Island on her page that gave us a general view of Rhode Island and help us understanding the article better. I also notice that some of us put page number in the post and I appreciated that.
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Pan
1/25/2015 07:14:03 am
Jiayi's Blog Post 2 was my favorite because of its simple and clear layout. The post was very straightforward and the content is easy to understand. Jiayi did not just describe what she read in the readings, she also related to herself by offering her personal opinion. The images she had in this post were relevant and they provided me a better understanding of what she was trying to convey in this post. Overall, this Blog Post 2 is great.
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George
1/25/2015 08:39:08 am
I like Dora's post is my favorite of the week. In addition to the summary and clear website layout, she provides readers with pictures that are closely related to article itself. Her usage both images, which is a route from Kingston to Biscuit City and an outside look of URI library, helps me to put Lahiri's words visually.
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Weiwei Zhong
1/25/2015 11:58:45 am
I like Diana's blog post best. The good organization and layout of her blog post is very attracting for visitors to read. She inserts pictures is between different parts of the blog post rather than put them in the middle of an single paragraph. Putting them randomly can be misleading sometimes.
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Among all the post, I prefer Zining’s second post. I think she did a really good job summarizing two articles and connecting their content. Moreover, she adds interesting pictures to illustrate the post such as the location of Kingston and the view of Rhode Island. After reading the posts, I think we should add more related images to make the posts more descriptive. Moreover, the posts would be better if we can find a way to create a flow of the post.
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I voted for Jiayu this week.
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Jiayi Ye
1/25/2015 01:53:59 pm
Bella's post is my favourite post this week. First of all, she did a good job in summarizing two articles she read concisely. Even though I have not read the Tuan's paper, I get the main idea of this article after I read Bella's post. In addition, she also links these two articles to Tuan's book. She relates the articles this week to Tuan's book from two aspects; one aspect is "intimate experiences of place", another is how meaning of place is maintained and enhanced by literature. I also like the style of Bella's website, which is clear and attractive.
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I voted for Dianna as my favorite post this week. Her site looks beautiful and clean because of the good layout, relevant images and video. I really like the fact that she introduces the author before the summary. She also uploads a video about Lahiri, which makes the post more interesting to read. My favorate part of the post is the "Reaching Out to Tuan's Space and Place". She mentioned that "place is given value by human beings and people give value to place because of the numerous interactions with place and deep emotion towards place" and supported it with points from "Rhode Island" and "Place". I think this is a great way to have a better comprehension about the reading and I should do it too next time.
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I voted for Jiayi's blog. She wrote very good summaries that represent the main idea of the original essays, and she had very impressive thoughts in her combined paragraph, which I did not think about. She also brought some interesting questions that worth discussion. By the way, she made very delicate website with those pictures.
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Xena Huang
1/25/2015 02:05:48 pm
Everybody seems to be the fun of pining out locations on map, which is good, since that's a powerful way to introduce a place. I voted for Dianna, for I love her inserting buttons of "learn more about" the author-- that's very thoughtful and actual attempt to invoke conversation and exploration.
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Even Guo
1/25/2015 02:11:01 pm
I think Yufei really did a great job. The organization is really good. For every essay, the writer divided the summary into several parts: synthesis tweet, summary, most pressing thought and discussion. Instead of putting all those into one big paragraph, Yufei designed the blog very well. However, I noticed that many of us only put pictures as supplements. Besides visual content, we should add other elements, as audio and video, to improve the overall quality of our websites.
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Hanxin Zhang
1/25/2015 02:19:47 pm
I like Dora's post. The layout of her website is simple and organized, which enables readers to easily navigate. As for her blog post, she included several pictures of Rhode Island to vividly show readers Lahiri's experience there. The summaries are well organized as well. She mentioned every important point of both articles and made it concise enough.
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First, I love Dora's design of her blog post. She puts a map which shows the road the author goes through from Kingston to Biscuit City. It's very creative and engaging. I also love Diana's blog post. She puts many pictures and a video to make the post look attractive. Besides this, she makes the first word of each paragraph bold, so that it's very clear for the audience to navigate. Overall, Diana does a really good job in the second blog post. I vote for Diana!
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Sibel
1/25/2015 08:11:13 pm
I voted for Jiayi's post because I think that her summaries are both clear and interesting. I also really liked her webpage's design and the pictures she used on the homepage.
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Cem
1/25/2015 08:47:27 pm
Dianna’s use of multimedia and design for this blog post is more than sufficient and interesting. She supported her writing with pictures of the author, maps of Rhode Island, and the video of an interview with Lahiri and more images as well as links to other sources.
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1/25/2015 10:28:36 pm
I like and vote for Jiayi's blog.
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1/26/2015 01:12:48 am
I enjoyed reading Jiayu’s blog post 2. She exactly points the important parts from the reading assignments. Her post is succinct and easy to understand. Especially, her synthesis paragraph shows the readers what the authors are trying to say clearly. On top of that, the pictures she uploaded help the readers to have a better understanding of her blog post. Additionally, the layout of her webpage is simple so that the readers can solely focus on the post.
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Caroline Luo
1/26/2015 01:43:01 am
Personally, I appreciate Yufei's blog post #2. His structure is clear. I love the way he organises his post: putting tweet at the very beginning of each part, which gives readers a clear understanding of what he discusses in the following part.
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Zining Wang
1/26/2015 03:19:23 am
I voted for Zining's website. I like his pictures and layout. The organization and structures are good, too.
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Guangye Zhu
1/26/2015 03:40:49 am
Personally speaking, George's blog is my favorite blog post for following reasons.
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Minseo Kim
1/26/2015 03:41:48 am
I thought Steve's blog post was the best this week. I think he summarized the story in a clear way. He posted the tweet summaries in the beginning so that readers can easily know what he is talking about.
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Bella
1/26/2015 04:01:23 am
I voted for myself this week because I feel my picture and content of writing is more interesting and related. Most of the blogs this week only contained limited pictures or special layout. People are just finishing tasks not really want to write something. Also some of the classmates didn't complete all we should write about. We lack personal reflection for this blog.
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Hae-Rim Lee
1/26/2015 04:59:43 am
I thought Minseo's blog post 2 was outstanding. He synthesized both readings clearly including all the important ideas. I really liked his summary about Lahiri's Rhode Island because he did not use words from the text, but of his own words. However, the blog post 2 could have been better if he had put some images and other visual effects.
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