To be honest, I never know what a blog is until yesterday when I signed up for one. Though, I heard of the word through my friends’ conversation, but I never put in my mind. Yesterday, after sign up my blog I asked my roommate, “What is a blog?” She said it a public Internet journal. Since I do not have any experience in blog, I have many reservations on writing in my blog. I am nervous just thinking that many thoughts to be read by many people. I hope that I less harsh comments and not make fool in my blog.
I have taken one English class in Davis and wrote many essays in other I have taken. My experience with writing is writing five paragraph essays with topic sentences. This class is different from my other English, so I look forward to it. My English is not that good because my major is Biochemistry and English is my second language. Even though my English is not that good, I really enjoy writing. I write my journal everyday and on spare times I write fan friction. I hope I show some improvement in my English by the end of this class.
2 comments:
Dieu, we should have been more explicit yesterday in class, and even again today, about what a blog is. As I said, I'm really wondering why this medium is so closely aligned with journals and diaries; I think we can trace a shift in this history (maybe?) so that a blog is now also a medium for journalism, academia, and so on. I really hope you use this course to tap into your interest in writing, and I appreciate your honesty about your concerns with writing formal papers. Think about how you can turn your work in fan fiction (you wrote "faction," but I assume you meant "fiction"?) into posts for this class.
Dieu,
You and I are in a similar position. Although I have had previous experience with blogs, it still makes me nervous that people are reading my thoughts and may have harsh opinions. I have also only taken one English course in Davis and I was also used to the five paragraph structure. It's hard to break out of it. English is also my second language and it's difficult at times because you're unsure of how the sentence may sound or if you're making the right grammatical corrections. Good luck in this English course and I hope it improves both of our writing skills.
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