Blog Posts of the Week #5

Blog Posts of the Week

Blog 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.

Blog Posts of the Week #5

2/17/2015

Remember to VOTE & COMMENT (on this blog post page, not the poll site) on the top three blog posts of the week. Your comments should include PRAISES & PROBLEMS.

Your PRAISES should include a brief, reflective explanation for your votes and, if you want, a comment or two about what other students' sites did well that deserves recognition; feel free to name names here.

Your PROBLEMS portion of your comment should include THREE ISSUES you see repeated throughout the blog posts that we all need to consider, address, and improve on (don't name names in this part, though).

THANKS!

19 Comments

Xena Huang

2/17/2015 05:46:17 am

I voted for Even because I think her layout stands out from others, and I can see that she must have spent many time in it.
A common problem for many of us, I think, is that we make the blog like a written submission on BB. Maybe try to engage more "multimodal" part in the blog would make it better.

Caroline Luo

2/17/2015 09:42:14 am

This week I voted for Carol and Even. Their blog posts not only have very descriptive content, which describes their process of revising the annotated bibliography and proposal, but also include some related links or video.

However, as I listed last week, we still have some problems for our blog posts. Some of us do not have a separated page for blog post so that it is sometimes hard to figure out where is the recent blog post.

Carol

2/17/2015 11:07:18 am

I vote for Danny this week. In his cover letter, he describes his personal experience which inspires him to focus on the topic how we build link with some place that is not pleasant for us.
His description is detailed and vivid and the perspective is interesting as I never thought it before.

Even

2/17/2015 12:36:53 pm

I voted for Danny's blog post this week because of the following two points. First, the tone and design used in his website is different from most of others because the main color is black whereas others are white. So it gives me a feeling that his website is very interesting and creative. Second, the content of his cover letter caught my eyes because he described his personal experience to explain how he came up with his argument for his persuasive essay. But one thing I noticed is that since these two weeks we are writing cover letters, we merely focus on the language itself, instead of linking out and making designs.

Hanxin Zhang

2/17/2015 12:42:18 pm

I voted for Even this week. Her cover letter stands out from others because she introduced the topic in a very interesting way. By describing her own experiences, she succeeded in generating readers' interests in this topic and then explained the significance of her essay. As for the process journal, she specified the problem she encountered in the beginning, which enabled readers to have clear ideas about what she would be talking about in the essay.

Xinxiu Tian link

2/17/2015 12:50:03 pm

I voted for Weiwei this week for several reasons. Her blog post is the most detailed post in these ten posts. She described what issues existing in her essay and how she could improve it. Furthermore, she illustrated the weaknesses of her original proposal, and brought up several methods that she used, such as ESL tutor, in order to strengthen her theme.

Pan

2/17/2015 01:00:43 pm

I voted for Danny and Even this week. In both of their cover letters, they showed their sophisticated thoughts and ideas. In Danny's cover letter, by revealing his thinking process, he showed us how he had constructed his persuasive by connecting with his own personal experience, which would enable the reader to feel more engaged in his writing. One of few problems I noticed in many blog posts this week was the lack of multimodal elements. Perhaps with the increasing workload and proceeding semester, everyone just simply becomes less aware of images and videos and focus more on the idea itself.

Shao

2/17/2015 02:42:56 pm

I voted for Even this week. For Even, first of all, I really like the website's appearance, with a colorful and huge image as the background and many eye-catching beautiful pictures of Beijing, Hong Kong, and Atlanta. For the blog post, she wrote a lot about her personal experience about hometown, second hometown and the formation of individual's identity, which is really interesting. After reading her post, I really look forward to read her essay. However, we have problems for our blog posts: since the format and structure were given by the professor, I found that we all wrote our blog post in a similar style, and forgot to use tools such as images, videos, music, etc.

Cem Eke

2/17/2015 05:45:30 pm

Danny posted a pretty piece of writing this week. His process journal is based on the metaphor of programming. This is a very well described metaphor for essay writing, which makes a lot of sense. With this metaphor, he points out a similarity between how he wrote his persuasive essay and how he usually writes a program. This similarity is that he reads the writings out loud when revising both his programs and essays.

On the other hand, I encountered a lot of generic and vague descriptions of the essays in cover letters. A lot of people said that they gave examples to support their claim, but very few of them actually talked about what they gave as examples or how they did it. I think that we should have gone more in detail with these cover letters and process journals.

Bella

2/17/2015 05:45:59 pm

I voted for Mayer this week. I think his blog reveals the process of revising and thinking when he tried to get organized with his proposal and essay, although he didn't include images. What I found out about other blogs this week are the misleading navigation of website and the misuse of images. Also some of them misunderstood what we should include in blog: process journal and cover letter instead of the revised proposal and bibliography.

Jiayi Ye

2/18/2015 02:51:58 am

I voted for Weiwei Zhong for this week's blog. She described how she revised her proposal and how she wrote for the persuasive essay in detail. First, she checked the "bones'-the thesis of her proposal and then revised the 'muscles'-every paragraph and 'skin'-the grammar and usage of words.

Lianyan Gu

2/18/2015 03:19:21 am

I voted for Even's blog this week.
I like her background for her blog post and how she offers tips in writing cover letter. I think her blog post dig really deep into her thesis and offers specific examples for improvement.
However, I think there is a common thing in our blog post that is most of our articles are in three paragraphs: original, ways to improve, after improvement. I think we can be more creative in writing reflection essays.

Yufei

2/18/2015 03:25:09 am

I like Danny's blog post for this week. She uses her experience in creating a program to explain how she revises essays. This original and interesting comparison attracts my attention. Also, her point is kind of new and creative. She wants to demonstrate that our link with place is not necessarily created by happiness, and there may be some unpleasant experiences in that place. Besides this, her experience working a restaurant is engaging, which is an experience not so many people have.

Zining Wang

2/18/2015 03:25:23 am

I voted for Carol's blog. His pictures are interesting. I also like his layout and organization for the blog page.
Other students also did well in layout and their blogs are clear.
I think some students could have multimodes so that readers can find it more interesting to read.

Zeyu Zhong

2/18/2015 04:56:42 am

I voted for Even's blog post.
First, I like her background pictures which reflect the beautiful landscape and image of China. In addition, the organization of the overall website is very scientific and clear.
Second, the classification of posts, process works and workshops are very organized, which is very convenient for reader to read through them.

Yuelin Guo

2/18/2015 05:39:28 am

I think Even and Weiwe's blogs are the best for this week. I think the process journal should be like a reflection of what we wrote. Both Weiwei and Even did a great job in summarizing the problems they encountered when writing the essay and their solutions towards them. Moreover, Weiwei asked ESL tutor for help in improving her essay and I think she really put much effort in her essay.

George

2/18/2015 09:26:12 am

I like Even's blog of the week because she wrote in detail about how she manages to achieve high-quality work step by step. Her combination usage of media components and essay structure really helps readers to utilize in their own writing. In addition, her writing about her personal experience did set up the background for readers to understand her point more.

Weiwei Zhong

2/18/2015 09:34:27 am

I like Even Guo's blog post best. First of all, she organized her blog in a very neat and clear way, so that I can locate her blog post very easily. Second, her process work for her proposal is written in very fluently, providing a clear guide for readers to know how she came up with the idea. Also, I like her thesis for the persuasive essay, it combines people 's reflection on place and place's impact on people, showing the two directional relationship. Besides, she also include the most noticeable element in people's feeling to place, the attachment, which she will explain by examples. This makes the persuasive essay very interesting and impressive.
The last point I want to mention is that, her blog utilizes large quantities of pictures, making the posts more interesting and attractive. In our future blog post, we can also include some pics, to diversify our posts.

Mayer link

2/18/2015 03:53:21 pm

I voted for Danny's blog, because he really fresh my ideas about place and self. I used to think that only positive events can make people attach to the place, but his story just prove that I was wrong. Also, he simile the writing as computer programming, and I think this idea is really interesting. I also take computer science course, and I really find programming hard. To make a program running, every single line has to be perfect. I think treating a essay as a program can really make the revision effective, because it will help find more detailed problems.

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