Sunday 24 February 2013

What is the What- thought and opinions

I am currently catching up in What is the What.
So far in What is the What, I have found myself to be disturbed at parts. I am normally able to handle mature and shocking themes, such as rape, and drugs, but in What is the What, at times I have really found the need to stop, due to the fact I am so disgusted by what David has described, and the fact that this is a possibly "true story", really disturbs me.
What is the What has it's moments of gripping magic, perfect one liners, engaging plot, but I find it dithers a lot, and bores me, especially when it goes back to the american line, I find it way to detailed.
All in all What is the What has been a good read for me, but I need to catch up, and I think that I just have to learn how to not lose focus when the boring repetitive parts are happening.

Sunday 3 February 2013

Is blogging a useful component in the english classroom?

Thesis Statement: Blogging is a useful component in the english classroom

I think blogging is a useful component in the english classroom because it gives students an excellent platform to practice their writing skills, but in a way they enjoy. Blogging is enjoyable because it gives bloggers the chance to put their views and opinions online, about anything they want, and for their writing pieces to be uncontested as to why they have written them, due to the fact that blogging is what YOU want to share, not what everyone else wants you to share. By writing about what you want to write about, this encourages you to write more, a universal agreement is the more you practice, the better you become, therefore this improves writing skills also.
However it is still a tool that needs to be refined. For example, I personally see the merits of blogging, but I struggle to come up with unique and original ideas for blogging, because I like to not follow what everyone else is doing, but try and do something a bit different. And most of the things that I am interested in have already been done. So I think that if there was one aspect of blogging that could be redefined, it would be more focus on how we can come up with good topics for blogging that we are interested in but that have not already been done and also how to assemble thoughts on paper, because it can be difficult for some of us.
Blogging is a useful component in the english classroom, but one that needs to be refined, by being taught about skills of how to come up with unique ideas, and how to assemble thoughts on paper.