Another Stop Along The Way...Portfolio 2

Looking back on the entries of this portfolio and the comments, my main observation is that personally I am beginning to really struggle with not so much the concepts, but many the applications in this class. It appears that others are starting to encounter some difficulties as well whether it is with the concepts or with writing the casebooks. From this portfolio, I can see where I am struggling and what I need to try to accomplish and overcome before the final portfolio and especially the final research paper. Hopefully, from this portfolio to the final one, I can compare how far I have come.

~ Coverage ~

Here's a little bit of an introduction to my blogs. This category gives a wide variety of everything that I have blogged about so far in this course in my Portfolio One.

• Words for Application
• Not Completely Convinced
• Keesey Has a Muddy Point Himself
• Not Much of A Difference
• Turn Wright At the Green Light

~ Depth ~

The blogs in this category were ones that I put a lot of time and thought into. They touched topics that I felt strongly about as well as topics that I was a little unsure about.

• Getting Meaning Out of A Text About Meaningless Text- I seemed to find some meaning in a text that looked a little hopeless...see what I had to say about Eagelton's chapter. 
• Words for Application- I really enjoyed Azar Nafisi talk. See how I related to it personally. 
• Clarin...Pulling a Melville in Disguise?- I think Clarin in "Life is a Dream" is being a little shady.
• Turn Wright At the Green Light- I added some links to some websites about An Abundance of Katherines. See how it related to Wright's article.

~ Blog Carnival~

It was a challenge to follow up such a great blog carnival as our group had last time, but we managed to pull it off. This time, our topic was a little more lively. We chose to apply a type of Literary Criticism to An Abundance of Katherines. Check out our carnival and see how it worked!

• Carnival Home Page- Angela kicked everything off for us this time as our host.
• My Entry: An Abundance of Average- I attempted to apply author intention to the book...see if it worked!
• Carnival Summary- I finished the carnival by summing up everyone's blog entries.
• In case you don't want to go through our whole carnival, here are some short cuts to everyone else's blogs:
• Greta's An Abundance of Holes **(for some reason, I couldn't get hers to link to mine)
• Derek's An Abundance of Katherines (The True Meaning)- Historical Criticism
• Angela's An Abundance of Water- Read the psychoanalysis of Colin
• Jenna's An Abundance of Emotions- Mimetic Criticism

~ Interaction ~

The blogs listed below are packed with discussions with peers, linking to their blogs, and some comments that I left on other blogs. See how our class interacts to help each other understand each week's material.

• Derrida Interprets Interpreting Interpretation- Try to find the center in Derrida's discussion.
• Not Completely Convinced- I didn't exaclty buy Gilbert and Gubar's article.
• Angela's Blog- I left a long explanation on Eagleton on Angela's blog. See if it helped her out or not!

~ Discussion ~

Some of my blogs were starting points for on going discussions with my peers. See what the hot topics were.

• Looking at the Bigger Picture- A discussion was created with Angela from this blog.
• Keesey Has a Muddy Point Himself- Another example of a discussion that was created with Angela.

~ Timeliness ~

The links listed below are examples of blogs that I posted before their due dates.

• That Was Long- I posted a really long quote. See if my discussion matched up to it.
• Over My Head...Again- I missed the point on Keesey's chapter.
• Not Much of a Difference- See what I had to say about SHU's production of Life is A Dream

~Xenoblogging~

In some of my blogs I linked to other websites and other blogs. See how these links helped out with my own discussions.

• An Abundance of Criticism (and blogging)- In the summary for our carnival, I linked to as many other blogs and websites as possible. There's about as many links as there are sentences!
• Turn Wright at the Green Light- I linked to some information of An Abundance of Katherines.

~Wildcard~

Something fun!

• What Is He Up To?- This is the first blog I ever made. And guess who commented on it...Greta!

Thanks for checking out my portfolio. Let me know what you think about it!