Final Anthology
Throughout
the semester, we explored many topics including learning an “arsenal of key
terms”, writing and revising habits, and different genre of writing. We wrote
many different types of blog posts such as writing a review, a film analysis,
and a cooking show script. These blog posts we made fitted into the overall
theme of food, feelings, and film because we incorporated one of the three
aspects in our writing, if not more at times.
Writing some of these blog post, especially smaller ones, helped me
develop my unique writing style and worked on some of my recurring problems. Getting
feedbacks on my earlier, less intense blog posts about things I can work allowed
me to pay closer attention to similar problems whenever I am writing longer
essays. As part of my reflection, I chose five blog posts that summed up my
time during my time in English class: “How Pizza Changed My Life Forever,
Buzzfeed Reaction”, “How to improve my Food Blog Proposal”, “How Morgan Freeman
would narrate the opening scene of Eat
Drink Man Woman”, and “The Lover’s Pie”. I placed these blog posts in that
particular order because it is in chronological order when we wrote them for
class. I chose to order them in chronological order because I can show my
progress and the different paths we took throughout the course. Each post is a
different genre of writing that we explored throughout this semester, allowing
me to improve on all genre of writing. Each blog post I revised has a link back
to the original document.
http://jonathanlung.blogspot.com/2016/12/how-pizza-changed-my-life-forever.html
http://jonathanlung.blogspot.com/2016/12/buzzfeed-reactions-revised.html
http://jonathanlung.blogspot.com/2016/12/how-to-improve-my-food-blog-proposal.html
http://jonathanlung.blogspot.com/2016/12/how-morgan-freeman-would-narrate.html
http://jonathanlung.blogspot.com/2016/12/the-lovers-pie-revised.html
The five blog posts I chose highlight the
semester of topics that we learned in class. In my first blog post “How Pizza
Changed My Life Forever”, I reflected on how one particular food influenced me.
The essay also helped me focus on how to make my paper very descriptive such as
“juicy pizza filled with melted cheese and crunchy pepperoni” as an example.
The next blog post “Buzzfeed Reactions” focused on the analysis of a video,
specifically two videos for my particular blog post. For example, I noted on
the participants age range, which were between “young teenagers to the
elderlies”, and recorded their reactions as shown in the video. “How to improve
my Food Blog Proposal” blog post helped me improve my main food blog post
proposal by offering different insight into the proposal. One suggestion was to
“avoid excessively using phrases such as “I want” and “I plan” throughout the
proposal”, which I took the suggestion and did change in my food blog proposal.
One of my favorite blog assignment was the “How Morgan Freeman would narrate
the opening scene of Eat Drink Man Woman.”
The assignment was to create a voice over an opening scene to the movie so I decided
to make it humorous. One example I wrote in the voiceover was when I commented
“An arsenal of knives. Anger issues. Real play-doh” during the scene when the
scene cuts from a wide shot of the kitchen full of knives to the main character
pounding dough. I took a legitimate, non-humorous scene and commented with wild
speculation and wrong information to create the feeling that the narrator does
not know anything. Finally, my blog post
“The Lover’s Pie” helped me focuse on the audience to whom I am writing for. I
introduced my blog post saying, “The pie we are making today is called The
Lover’s Pie. My pie will consist of chocolate, eggs, salt, milk, honey, and
chili pepper”; I wrote the sentence in the style where I am talking to the
reader instead of being third person narration. All of these blog posts taught
me different skills, but each blog post carved a path for me to discuss about
food, feelings, and film throughout the semester.
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