Yolo everyone... So yes, this is the summative assessment for blog unit, "what has 
changed me as a writer?"

Introduction

After writing several decent blog posts, I have learned to communicate with readers well, and understood to use some conversational sentences, tones, and mood to make my blog more appealing. A variety of technological manipulations makes my posts more formative and effective, which includes proper citation, image usage, personal introduction, and cautious awareness.

 

Perfect use of technology in a post is congruent to a perfect post.

Attribution

Before the unit started, I was incapable of correctly citing the sources where I had gotten the from; however, the presentation from other groups regarding creative commons gave me the general understanding of it. Being a risk taker, I encourage myself to use a lot of pictures to convey a relaxing mood, and try to properly attribute to the author of the selected image. I have shown gradual improvement since the beginning. The skills of attribution allow me to further select appropriate images and put it in the blog without infringing the original author, or being accused of illegal spread…(It is totally possible)

Anyways, you can see the improvements and my rapid progress!

Images 

Due to my profession in bibliographic citation, I now have the ability to use a lot of pictures to decorate my blog post, [to let the audience be interested in my blog:)]  Images enhance my blog post to another level as it attracts the attention of the readers, and by placing images where necessary, it presents a totally new perspective, that pictures are more powerful than words! Correct attributions and benevolent use of images, despite being two different things, are closely related to one another. 

By the way, the screencasting video by Mr. Williamson regarding attributions help me so much!! 

Biography

The third factor that changes me as a writer is the creation of my personal biography and favorable background. These two things, seemingly purposeless, reflect my personalities and present readers “my true self.” [Yes, this was the first editing for my blog when I just came to 9th grade:)] This skill is extremely important since without personal biography, I am basically anonymous and is considered invisible on the KAS blog. The selected background and profile picture decorate my blog enormously.

In addition, before someone clicks into the posts I wrote, the person will see my interesting background first!

It is me; it is important.

Awareness

The use of highlights for some important words and conversational tones shows my awareness on the audience. A strong awareness on the readers is so magical that they might feel as if I were having a conversation with them; in actuality, I just am just writing colloquially? The emphasis of awareness also makes me a better writer. I started to apply this skill since Mr. Williamson has been constantly talking about “having a conversation with your audience instead of writing tiresome two-thousand words.”

Conclusion

So, going back to the original question, “what has the blog unit changed me as a writer?”  Personally, this unit has changed my attitude toward the blog. At first, I thought blog was usually boring due to its paucity of animations, and was basically another form of an assignment; therefore, the posts in eighth grade were extremely dull. I think the biggest change is the use of attractive sources such as images and backgrounds, which enhance the interests of readers. These all bring strong awareness to the audience. In short, I am now professional at writing blog posts because of the practical application of images with correct attributions, biography on entertaining facts, and awareness on words, which make me closer to an independent/great writer.

I am officially way more better than that, believe it or not…