Portfolio 1 -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study)
This is my first blog entry portfolio. Through doing this assignment, I've begun to realize how much I've changed since the beginning of the semester (at least in terms of the blogging, that is). When I looked back at my earlier entries, I realized that I tried much too hard to create interesting titles. Now I'll be the first to admit that some of my titles are boring, but as I stopped focusing so much on trying to make them interesting, they started to get better. Though I'm sure I've probably changed in other areas as well, this was the area that was the most noticeable.
Coverage: (all of the blog entries I have posted)
~I'm an English Major: Now What? (Intro & Chapter 1)
~"Freedom of speech redefined by blogs"
~"Bernice Bobs Her Hair"
~Foster (1-3, 5)
~"Trifles"
~Foster (19, 20)
~"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
~Foster (Ch 12 and Interlude)
~"A Good Man is Hard to Find"
~Foster (6-9, 11, 14)
~Essential Literary Terms (1-31)
~"The Machine Stops"
~Essential Literary Terms (112-149)
~"Everyman"
~Essential Literary Terms (68-97)
~Essential Literary Terms (98-111; 150-166)
~"The River"
~"To Build a Fire"
~Essential Literary Terms (32-67)
~"Short Story: 10 Tips"
Depth (all of the blogs that I went into a deeper discussion)
~Right or Wrong?
~All in Good Time
~Know Who We Are
~Big Mistake
Interaction (some of the more useful comments I left on peers' blogs)
~John Fish's entry Canary, Human...Yeah, I Guess that's Fair
~Ellen Einsporn's entry Sympathy for the Devil
~Hallie Geary's entry Oxymoron of Closet Drama
~Ellen Einsporn's entry A Tragic Idiot
~Mathew Henderson's entry Ah, that's so sad!
Discussions (entries that caused peer discussions)
~Right or Wrong
~Disillusioned Civilization
~Subtle? Yeah...Right.
Timeliness (the entries that I submitted early enough to gain good discussions)
~Subtle? Yeah...Right.
~Wild Character
~Know Who We Are
Xenoblogging (some blog entries in which I was the first to comment: the comments that were more helpful)
~Ellen Einsporn's entry A Tragic Idiot
~Hallie Geary's entry Oxymoron of Closet Drama
~Ellen Einsporn's entry Sympathy for the Devil
~John Fish's entry Canary, Human... Yeah, I Guess that's Fair
~Bethany Merryman's entry Ohhhh the Irony!
Wildcard (the blog entry that I feel is the best one)
~Know Who We Are
I chose this entry because whenever I think back to all of the blog entries I've done, this is always the first to come to mind when I think of the good entries. I took an outside quote to help analyze what I read. It is due to this reason that this is one of my better thought out entries.