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Over these past few months of blogging, I noticed some trends in my writing styles.  I have become more comfortable blogging, and my blogs are not very short yet.  In the future, I will work on bringing up topics in a succinct manner.

The biggest difference in my writing has come in my writing process.  Instead of looking for a relative news article, I choose instead to continue an in-class discussion on the blog and then find a news article that relates to it.  I comment using the author's point of view as well.  Since I don't always have many opportunities in class to voice my opinion, I enjoy being able to say my point of view on the blog and then get responses as well.  Since many topics in class are controversial, I have no problem picking a side and then continuing the discussion.

The post that generated the most comments was called, Do We Understand?  I stated a point of view that was contrary to many of the ideas that were discussed in class, and that showed through in the comments.  It turns out that I needed to revise my opinion, which I did in the comments.

Another improvement in my blogging is that recently I have not asked the reader many direct questions, but instead have left it more open ended so that they can comment at leisure.  However, I have been disappointed at my readers.  It seems that they don't visit my blog much, or don't leave comments, and I wish they would.  I try to make my blog interesting and opinionated so that they can have something to agree with or disagree with, but I haven't received many comments recently.