Writing and research 7

Aside from maybe taking to much influence from West's article I think I followed the prompt well. My thesis is not highly defined so hopefully it can be found and someone can help me expand it. I reached a writers block at the three and a 1/4 page point and would like some feedback on how to expand my ideas to efficiently use more space.

My paper may just be missing the long explanation most of the other papers will have of the blog they are following because mine is an easily looked up resource that is harder to explain from an inside perspective.

Writing and research 6

I chose prompt 2 for my essay and I have found that it is essentially the same idea as the first essay. I have not found a blog yet to base it on but I am currently searching. The idea should be the same though, and I will apply the same criteria for this blog and explain it using West's method instead of my interpretation. I am struggling with finding all of my resources and I am not sure how I am going to smoothly incorporate all of the required resources into my paper. It my be easier when I have the personal blog to base it off of so I hope to find one soon.

Edit: Due to the difficulty of finding a suitable blog for this assignment I am instead going to use prompt one.  

Article for paper

I do not know if I forgot a step or if my terms were no good, but I could not find a suitable article to use in conjunction with Rettberg and West. I have a few questions regarding the topic for the assignment, and what I should be looking for in an article that would help me with the topic. I will have to come back to this post in order to do the blog assignment as directed with the annotated bibliography and all, but for now I am hoping to get away with a work in progress post.

Edit: article found,  The Psychology of Blogging: You, Me, and Everyone in Between by Laura J. Gurak and Smiljana Antonijevic, this is not a proper citation but I have a paper to write.

Essay 2

After seeing that there were more choices on the topic of this blog I was pretty sure I would be picking one of the new ones. My blog was not written much like a blog and did not fit well for the assignment. The second one seems like a good choice because it is very similar to the first essay only the blog is being analyzed in a different way, but reaching the same goal of determining identity. The third is a very arguable topic because it would involve a lot more information, but the amount of sources required would make the research part very tedious and use up too much time. I am leaning toward the second option, I think my first essay was good and with the similarities this one should go well too.

Writing and research 5

This blog was written for the soul purpose of completing the assignments assigned. I purposely left out feeling or any of my social mannerisms. In an educational setting my identity is much harder to discern because I would rather not show anything about how I am. If anything can be assumed about me by reading through certain posts, it would suggest that I am confident in how well I understand and complete my work, of course this is spelled out for my readers in the reflection of my first essay and "writing and research" 3 and 4.

West's article

I had a tough time finding something significant in this article because I found it was poorly written. It made references to sources and a system of how those sources list things such as the "levels of social organization" but does not explain the system. She also gave characterization titles to each of her subjects like the "relationship-savvy teen" and does not give her definition of this type of characterization. These things made the arguments hard to follow and I felt there was no supporting evidence. I do not know what I was supposed to derive from this article, but I did not get it.

essay 1 writing process

The first essay showed me that my writing process is very dependent on trial and error. I like to have a lot of time to write in a quiet room and just let my arguments come to me. After reading it back to myself and fixing anything I wrote that confuses me or spelling errors, I like to have it read over or graded etc. because I need the conformation that I am understanding what I should be/trying to be writing about, and if what I wrote makes sense. Then I restart my writing process until no one has further comments.

First essay reflection

It was not all that difficult to write this first essay because I understood the assignment and found all my arguments rather quickly. The blog I chose made it easier because I made sure to use a average joe solo blog because it was easier to focus on his information. Introductory and conclusion were still as difficult as always because I feel like it is redundant to restate things since I always assume the readers will remember what they read. I feel pretty confident for my next essay if it is this sort of research based as well.

They Say I Say

I have not yet figured out how I am going to incorporate this book into my essay. There is a lot of information, but a lot of it I have used already. I like how my essay is laid out, and adding things will take more rearanging then actually researching for information. I will have to do a more in depth search instead of general reading so I can refine my search for what I would like to incorporate into my essay. The rest of the book is supposed to be read soon so hopefully it can add to my essay as well.