Guide to Blogging in this Class

The main connection I see between the blogging instructions and the class activities is that in every single class we engage the text in some fashion. While we were reading "A Grief Observed" we built card castles
to demonstrate how fragile our lives and personal belief systems can be. When we read "What We Talk about when We Talk about Love" we separated into our small groups and discussed how different people might view the concept of love and how love can be distorted and made into something it isn't. These activities and many others accomplished the purpose behind this class: learning how to engage texts on
a deeper and more meaningful level. Through this course I have learned that there is more to reading a text than just following the words on the page. True reading of texts also involves getting engaged with the text and attempting to think objectively about what is in front of you. You need to recognize as well as consider and/or discuss any themes, morals, or other important devices used in the text. Professor Corrigan offered us a number of suggestions through which we could do this on the blogging instructions guide. One of these suggestions was to "give an interpretation of the work and give details from the text that make the interpretation plausible." I used this method for at least one of my posts and found it to be very effective. The opportunity to interpret the text allowed me to refine my ideas about what I had read. For me, getting to blog
about the things we've read in class has been a great experience. It helps enhance the reading process because I have the opportunity to broascast my ideas about a text to other people and because I receive honest feedback that allows me to discover what different people think about my writing. Blogging has worked very well for me. At the beginning of the semester I was concerned that I wouldn't be able to write about the topics well or that I would consistently forget to post the next blog. But so far, the blogging has gone really well for me.