Blog entry 21

A. Go back through your blog entries for the semester and choose three (3) that you consider your best work. Write a paragraph explaining why/ how these blog entries reflect your best work.

I consider the blog entries 15, 16 and 17 as the most interested section of the entire course. All of them were part of the food section. The blog entry 15 was an essay in which we responded to the Meatrix film, in this assignment I felt surprised by the circumstances in which employees and animals were treated in the meat industry. I was not aware of the holocaust that those corporations have perpetuated to make profit out of the workers and animals. I hope that someday there will be positive changes in the industry to avoid the cruelty of the meat factories. Blog entry 16 was about the cat practice, ‘Let them Eat Fat.’ I really enjoyed writing my essay about that passage, because all the facts behind the fast food corporations were revealed to me. I used to be very addicted to fast foods restaurants, especially Chinese restaurants and MacDonald. At this time I have changed those habits of eating there, and I have started to eat at home, which it was something I stopped doing since I moved to New York. Lastly in blog entry 17, I presented my comments about the food section in which I was really interested to complete due to my reactions against the negative exposure of the meat industry. Therefore, these three blogs are the ones I consider to be my best work, because it directly motivates me to overcome many issues relate to my food habits. I was emotionally involved in this section of the course.

B. Next, consider your online experience this semester and write a second paragraph that answers the following questions:
Was writing online different from other writing experiences you have had in the past? If yes, how so? If not, what was the same?
Did writing blog entries help improve your writing ability? Please explain why or why not.
Did you feel that the online work was a shared experience or an individual activity?
Did you read other students’ online work? (Never/ Only when Assigned/ Sometimes/ Often)
Did you get the impression that other members of the class or the network read your blog? (Never/ Only when Assigned/ Sometimes/ Often)

Writing Blogs was a different experience as I was not used to do it. Before I have attended the ESL classes at La Guardia but I have never been in a class where all the assignments were presented in blogs. I believe this method of keeping track of assignments online, it is really useful to save time and in my case, I feel more engaged to the class since all the assignment were posted prior to class. Also, writing blogs have been interesting for me. I have never done a blog in my life, and with this one I have noted that my English is improving much more than the previous classes. In addition to this, sharing thoughts and giving feed back to my classmates has improved my knowledge of English as well. We can take a look into everyone’s blog, and it really helps to in some way improve our knowledge by comparing our writing style to the students with different backgrounds. I constantly read other students’ blog a lot, to look for ideas of how to start my essay, and to look for examples of writing styles. Some of the students were looking through my writing, some of them let me know that they were, and make comments about it, that was really helpful for me and I told them that I really appreciated them for taking the time of doing so.

C. Finally, consider you overall experience in the class and write a third paragraph that answers the following:
What lessons will you be taking away from this class?
Is there something you would have liked to discuss that we did not get to? What is it and why did you want to discuss it? (Or, what did we not cover in depth that you would have liked to cover in depth and why?)
Do you feel that you are leaving this class with a basic understanding of writing strategies? Why or why not?
What was the most memorable moment, assignment, interaction, or experience you had in the class? Please explain why.
What recommendation(s) would you give to a student that plans to take this class next semester?

I have learned a wonderful lesson from the food section in which I have changed many aspects of my food consumption. But the most important lesson that I could have learned from this class, was to learn how to organize my ideas when I start to write my essays. I do not think that we had missed anything from the writing process that it was taught by the professor. This class has taught me several strategies to overcome the issue in my writing. In the present, I have accomplished all my expectations in order to face the Cat test. The most memorable moment of the class when we took the cat practices test, I almost felt as if I was in the real one, and I made some mistakes that I believe I have amended those mistakes. The recommendations that I would give to the students that are about to take this class; is that the need to complete all the blog entries, and check back with the tutors to correct any misspelling.