Blog to Essay

When I read “Cat’s Cradle” I focused on the technology aspect of the book. I think this is why I decided to write my essay in the way that I did. I tried to really look into how Vonnegut was portraying technology. Also, I tried many times to compare Vicente’s idea on the human factor into “Cat’s Cradle”.

Throughout reading “Cat’s Cradle” I highlighted quotes that I found were interesting or important to the story. I feel like this helped me a lot throughout writing my essay. If I was stuck in an error I would look through these quotes and it would help me keep my essay flowing. With my notes from “The Human Factor” I took down a lot of notes about what exactly the human factor is and some examples that she used in her chapter about it. Taking those notes helped me to compare the human errors that were also made during situations in “Cat’s Cradle”.

I feel like when I started reading “Cat’s Cradle” I should of made notes as I was reading on how “The Human Factor” was different than Vonnegut’s novel. I think having notes on this would have made it easier, instead of at the time I was writing the essay trying to think of how the two stories contrasted. I really don’t think I said at all in my essay how the two were different; it may have been interesting if I decided to do that.

I liked doing the peer editing online. It was a lot different than when you physically have their paper in your hands. I think when I have the paper to write on I write a lot more comments. However, with doing it online I feel that I concentrated more on how to expand their ideas and trying to help them make their paper better. Normally, I just stick to fixing little grammar errors and spelling mistakes. I think it is more helpful for the writer to get comments on how to fix there overall paper than just a few spelling mistakes.

It was difficult for me to move from writing a blog to writing a formal essay. I think that in general I just would rather write blogs because I feel like I have more freedom to say what I feel and I worry less about my grade. However, once I got started writing it became easier because I did have my blogs to look back on and to read my ideas and put them into my new essay. Its easier to have already written about a topic instead of just reading a book and going straight into a formal essay. Also, now that I have written the essay I feel like my blogs will be better because now I know what to write in them to help me for when the next essay comes along.