Writing and research 4

I think I followed the idea for the presentation well. I felt my arguments supported my thesis and the thesis was on topic with the research question. I kept eye contact with the audience and rarely relied on my slides.

I could have used a more visually engaging presentation but my original thought was to keep it simple and somewhat professional

Blogging 2

The only section from the book I was able to use was the three main types of blogging. It was not an important point to prove my thesis, because I used it to determine what type of blog "The Greedy Gamer" is. After figuring out which one best fit, I determined it only gave a broad definition, and had little to do with the identity of the blogger. The book only looked at personal blogs as being more focused on the reader and why they might write it. This blog did not fit under personal, and ended up being a topic biased blog. The book described these as being more community based and having more then one writer, which did not fit for my purposes.

Writing and Research 3

I do not think I have too many changes to make to the first draft of my paper. I believe I understood the concept and applied it to my paper, as well as understanding what to take away from the blog. The only real issue I had was wording my thesis and integrating it clearly into my paper. I have figured out the wording for my thesis, but because the first and second paragraph tie in with each other I need to work on putting in my thesis without disrupting the paragraph. 

Writing and Research 2

After thoroughly reading a few pages of posts from the "greedy gamer" I have found that his opinions and mannerisms have become more apparent. Throughout he mentions his life outside the games and his actual time spent playing and it gives you more of a feeling that this is a real person. 

The blog is laid out simply enough, giving previews of the posts and showing the full thing when clicked on. It has not been to hard to analyze the posts to form answers to the task given in the essay, but providing so much detail to fill "x" amount of pages seems to be the more difficult aspect. Considering this is not a personal blog but rather an informal topic driven blog, you can sometimes forget this is a regular person with a hobby and not there auto-biography. The only problem with this is he is not an overly complex individual, and is more precisely summed up in fewer words.

Blogging

"While it is usually unimportant whether we regard a blogger as a journalist or not, there are times when it really matters. These legal definitions show that blogging and other forms of user-created media are causing us to redefine the nature of journalism itself. It remains to be seen whether legal definitions of journalism and blogging are necessary in other countries" ( 91).

This quote is referring to the passages above it, in which the author states two other quotes. The first quote is the 2005 version of the legal definition of a journalist, and the second is the 2006 version. The quote I stated above is essentially saying that the shift in the legal definition for journalism is being effected by new forms of journalism; in this instance the new form of journalism is blogging.The context of the quote and Rettberg's passages before it suggest a new definition was formed, because of legal issues between whether or not the inclusion of media such as blogs is accepted to what is traditionally know as journalism.

In my reading, however, I felt the first definition was broad and had a few holes that would already allow blogging to be considered journalistic. The intention of the change in the second seemed to suggest the same, but with less specific examples and the added clause of it having to be a salaried profession. Rettberg does not really touch on the issue. I think it is important to note that many bloggers can acquire steady wages for their blogs, although they are hardly different from those who publish for personal pleasure. Some are payed on an advertisement based revenue like most local newspapers, but are apparently not considered journalists because that revenue goes directly to them instead of trickling down from a higher up in the form of an hourly wage.

Writing and Research

I am not the most artistic person; In fact I can never put any feeling toward that kind of thing. Most of the things I excel in are technical and involve hard data. This would explain why I am going into the field of computer science. In light of that I do not have any particular hobbies and my only discussable interest involves computers.

I would like to follow someones personal blog. It really does not matter who the person is, but I would like to observe how a person without a classroom agenda starts a subject in their blog and what they could have to write on a day to day or week to week basis.    

Who am I as a Writer

As a writer, I am more than a work in progress, because although I am slowly developing skills to create writing that is professional and gramattically correct, I do not put any feeling toward the writing and write it correctly just to make it technically correct. I only write when prompted to do so and not for personal pleasure or to get a point across.