Blog Post #4

I've learned a few things from this blog. Primarily i learned how to blog. I've never done a blog before so this is a great learning experience as well as, life experience also. I've always wondered what was the purpose of blogging or what was it like to have a blog. Now I can say I have my own. I like the fact that a blog is more like an open discussion. It's basically an email sent to a group but instead of sending it you just compose it and let others view it whenever they want. This blog has done a couple of things for me. It has added to my use of technology, lol, and it has also helped me improve my typing speed. However,it has also helped me to further express myself verbally about the work that I do, no matter the subject. I feel like an actual writer or scientist whenever I get on here and express to whoever may see my blogs the progression of my work and research. It puts me in the shoes of other actual writers or people's blogs that I may have read over the years and to know actually why they actually took the time to write blogs in the first place. This has helped aid to my writing process and topic of my paper as a whole. Expressing myself and my work on this blog has helped me realize things about my thought process and how it can be best fit for my work. For example, when telling about interesting things I've learned through the books that I have gotten about my topic and the feedback from Ms. Ingram about the posts that I have put up, they help me further explore different areas and fields about the topic. IT helped me to further realize that research just isn't about the things that you find from books or even interpersonal experiences or findings, but about valid information that you encounter while searching for your own. Basically, I'm saying that things told and experienced by other people that you can connect with may also be a form of research. Many people think that just because that have looked in a book and found facts and information bout something that their research is done. I have came to the conclusion that research is like a painting, it's never really done you just stop continuing with it whenever you want. I know for a fact that my research for my topic is nowhere near complete but it's adequate for the type and amount of work that I'm doing for it. I'm a very thoughtful and optimistic person. So blogging has also served as a personal journal for me during this research process. It almost kind of feels like I'm doing my logs for my senior project again.