The Blog Project: Reflection

 The Blog Project: Reflection

Throughout this semester I have been learned lots of knowledge from WRA whatever blog, paper or in-class essay. When I chose this course beginning, I want to learn some new information for me like American women issue, literacy and American culture. At the end of this class, I think I am on my way to finish it. The blog has been an interesting assignment because it exposed me to a completely different form of writing than what I am used to. For example, I used to write sentiment after watched a movie and what I saw in my daily life related to women issue. I tried my best to understand it deeply. In my last blog, I will try my best to make a conclusion what I have got this semester, especially what I have learned from my blog.

A blog is a type of website or part of a website. Blogs are usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order. Blog can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog. Most blogs are interactive, allowing visitors to leave comments and even message each other via widgets on the blogs and it is this interactivity that distinguishes them from other static website. The blog’s requirements in our class are so different to regular blogs. The topic of my blog is entirely up to me, but the entires must focus on women’s issues in some way. It is about my experiences, ideas; my respone to a TV show or moive; my reaction to an article, magazine, book, blog post and so on. Blogs are written more casual than a formal essay and the writer has a lot more freedom.   It is good that writing classes are developing a wider curriculum that includes newer forms of writing.  The expanded curriculums in writing classes help introduce students to forms of literacy. Especially in lower level writing courses, certain literacies may be more relevant to students than the traditional literacy taught. 

Blog make our life colourful and meaningful. Why we choose personal blog? Blogging is sometimes viewed as a new, grassroots form of journalism and a way to shape democracy outside the mass media and conventional party politics. (Why We Blog) In personal blog, people can release their emotion in the writing and post their photos about sweet memory. In this fast step society, people need a way to relax and release trheirselves use the right way. There is a student in my class, her blog name was Women in the Real Word, it is all talk about women and analysis the women’s position. That is what she saw and felt about women of the personal thinking. We need blog and we learn from blog through watch others blog.

Blog and literacy has the completed relationship. In this semester, we discuss the four type of literacy, Multi-Genre Literacy Narrative, Disciplinary Literacy, Visual Literacy, culture literacy. Blog is related to this literacy. Blog’s development also drives technological development. When we use blog we cannot leave computer and technology. That is multi-genre literacy. If someone treat the blog for her/his part of life it is not just an entertainment suffer the internet. They write blog seriously and use as corporate and organizational blogs. The articles in their blog like academic writing and related to their major which is disciplinary literacy. If people take vedio of their happiness life and post on blog which is visual literacy. How about the culture literacy, people use blog or not it is related to their country’s culture. Someone can post their life pictures and articles on blog. Someone thought it is over privacy. As a conclusion, blog related to our life closely.

I think blog help me a lot. I am improving my writing skills and blog also gave me a lot of practice with writing for a large audience over the internet. It is healthy to openly express oneself, and I believe blogging is a great way to achieve this while simultaneously improving writing skills. Blogging can fix or better the reputation by allowing writers, students, and everyone else to enjoy literature. 

Bonnie A. Nardi, Volume 47 Issue 12, December 2004, http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/1040000/1035163/p41-nardi.pdf?key1=1035163&key2=4881464031&coll=DL&dl=ACM&ip=35.13.142.186&CFID=21343632&CFTOKEN=21672560

Last Blog for this Semester

This is the last blog for my WRA class in this semester. I want to talk about high-heels for women.
The history of the high-heeled shoe, or a shoe whose heel is higher than the toe, is a matter of contentious and heated discussion. Shoes in general have typically served as markers of gender, class, race, and ethnicity—and both the foot and the shoe have been imbued with powerful phallic and fertility symbols as evidenced in the contemporary practice of tying shoes to a newlywed couple's car. No other shoe, however, has gestured toward leisure, sexuality, and sophistication as much as the high-heeled shoe. Fraught with contradiction, heels paradoxically inhibit movement in order to increase it, at least in appearance. Standing in heels, a woman presents herself already half-walking while at the same time reducing the length of her step, fostering the illusion of speed while suggesting an imminent fall. The higher and more unstable the heel, the more clearly these contradictions are expressed. Doctors and scholars alike have argued about the physical and cultural effects, both positive and negative, that heels have had not only on women, but on society as a whole.
When women wear high-heels, they looks more beautiful and sexy. That's a special production for women and almost women will choose it. it is not a ornament but a tasty for women. That's present fasion.