the state of my second essay.

I finished my second essay draft a couple days ago. My essay is at the borderline state of sanity and unsanity, somehow. I thought the essay was all right but could definitely use some working on. Compared to the first essay. The writing is like a mountain range, with some high and low points. I thought this one was slightly more dificult.

One thing that I wasn't sure I did well enough in the essay was clearly establishing the identity that I got through the blog posts of this blog. I just decided to reveal a quirky thinker and serious literature student as the idenitites of my essay. Anyway...

happy turkey day!!
bye.

progression of my essay.

I have a general idea of where I plan to go with the second essay. In my essay, I plan to pick apart my blog like famished baby pterodactyls in order to uncover this well hidden identity of myself in my blog. I want to elaborate more on Kathleen West’s brilliant idea of a scholarly blog that still contains a sense of personality. I also found another article that argues the concept of the social-identity vs. the self-identity, which perfectly fits into my essay like a two-thousand piece puzzle.

The main struggle I have is classifying my identity within a blog. It should not be too hard considering all the blogs posts but it’s still pretty difficult. Obviously I can tell what the social-identity is for my blog, which is the super duper professional sophisticated scholar. I am yet to come up with an identity that properly fits me? Am I a rebel? Am I a pop culture specialist? I don’t know.  I’ll figure out, not tonight because of the harry potter premiere. Yay!

article findings.

So I’ve decided that this next essay is going to be tough, like a gorilla, to write. Yet, it will be interesting, like basketball, as well. So this essay is going to be like a basketball playin’ gorilla? Uhm. Yeah. Anyways...

I found this article online that I think would help write the second essay. It’s a scholarly article from a journal that helps better establish what an identity is, things that affect identity, and ways to identify them.  The most important part of the article was the comparison of a self and social identity, kind of what Kathleen West was talking about in her own article. Both authors in their articles argue that there is an identity within a person’s blog. 

There’s plenty of information I can use to implement it into my own research. I could use their ideas of self and social identity to talk about similar things that I find in my own identity. Whatever. Somehow I’ll make this essay work towards my advantage. I will come out with the W in this fight.  

adios.

essay thoughts. sort of.

For this second essay I plan to take the original prompt and write about my own blog entries and determine how I express my own identity.  I feel like I got plenty of blog posts to analyze and find an identity. One thing though is that it will be troublesome to try and find my own identity. Now that I think of it, this essay seems kind of tough.

Looking through my past blogs I’ve noticed a couple things. I try to have as much fun as a blogger can have while blogging. I tend to make jokes, funny or not, while I’m blogging. My blog posts aren’t all just fun and games; I don’t just rant nonsense about how gorillas might prefer apples over cantaloupe, but I incorporate the assignment somewhere within the post. I still show the web-literate serious English student voice in my blogs.

Although I haven’t established an identity for myself I got some ideas sitting around in my head chillin’.

much love.

engaging with kathleen west.

It was a nice relaxing Sunday afternoon when I was faced with making a decision that is crucial for my future. Should I lounge around all day and watch football and “Back to the Future” or go read Kathleen West’s article regarding weblogs in an English class. Being the responsible scholar that I am, I decided to take some time and read the article.

From reading the article I thought the most significant part was that, “all [students] construct distinct socially situated identities in their blog posts…the three of them build identities as “serious literature students” and “Webliterate communicators” within their entries” (West 596).

I found it interesting how each student had created their own identity through their blog. Not only were the students able to create their own identity but they were still able to preserve a scholarly professionalism. This is evident in our own class because not one person blogs the same as another; everyone has a different style of writing, kind of like a bag of assorted flavored jelly beans.

mmkay  peace!

my thoughts on this first essay.

I don’t consider myself much of a writer; I actually think I am quite terrible when it comes to putting my thoughts on to paper but I still end up usually getting a pretty good grade.  

For some reason I was pretty comfortable in writing this essay so my experience wasn’t completely dreadful. From the first draft I seemed to get most of the things I needed done, such as finding an identity and providing an analysis of how it’s portrayed through the blog. Then before the revised essay was due I just tried to add a little more context to it.

My paper writing habits aren’t the best. I blame technology for any bad writing habits I have. I sit down in front of my laptop ready to write a paper and the next thing you know I’m watching Kobe dominate the NBA while eating sour gummy worms. Weird! But after a couple hours I get it done.

The research was definitely the most helpful part of learning because I was actually learning something. I’m glad I chose movie blogs as my topic because movies are just so interesting. I enjoyed reading the bloggers opinions on the reviews and how they compared to my own opinions. I actually plan to stay updated to this blog after this class is over with.