At the beginning of the year, when I found out that our weekly homework was to keep blogging, I was very skeptical of the process itself. As the year has gone on though, I've become more comfortable blogging, and am very proud of many of the blogs that I have written. In second semester though, my favorite blog has to be, "Whistelblowers". This is the blog where I introduced my junior theme topic, why are whistleblowers not protected. This blog has to be my favorite because one of the biggest problems in my writing this year was empathy for the reader, and in this blog I introduce my topic and explain it even better than I did in my actual junior theme, I wrote, "A whistleblower is defined by Merriam-Webster as..." A major problem in my junior theme was that I assumed the reader would know what whistleblowers are, an assumption I didn't make in my blog.
Also, I touch on the limits of whistleblowing, similar to what we did in the perilous paper, and open up the argument to the class, writing, "Where should the line be drawn? I'm focusing on the reasons why the government restricts whistleblowing, so I won't be able to get into this side of the argument in my paper, so I'm curious what your opinions on the subject are". Even though no one in the class responded to my question, that is something that I have improved on over the year, bringing back the issue to the rest of the class. My blogging this year has been a journey, an often times I find myself blogging about things that don't interest me. I am particularly proud of this blog because I site multiple texts, I explain my issue, give my opinions, and bring the discussion back to the class. It is weird to be writing my last blog of the year, but I am happy with the work I put out. First semester I slacked in writing blogs, but this second semester I picked up my blogging and was nearly blogging weekly, with some gaps around junior theme.
