Coming
into this English class, I expected a more in-depth understanding of what this English
class had to offer but what I didn’t expect was how it was going to be
done. Expecting essays as a normal English
class would have, I was wrong. I didn’t expect the offerings of this class to
be taught through a blog. As we gathered information on what our topic was for
our blog, I began to think about what all this information was going to lead
to. I soon realized that it all this information I collected in my blog led to
a hybrid essay, which is a combination of two or more different writing styles
that can work together to create a joint work piece.
As I began my own hybrid essay of my
own using my blog as a raw material, I had no idea of how I wanted to piece it
together. I had no idea of what type of writing styles I wanted to work with. I
didn’t know what I wanted to combine with an essay. An essay writing style was
one of the combinations we had to work with for our hybrid essay. The problem
was finding another combination that can work well with the essay writing
style.
As I continued to find that other
combination, I began to look for that other piece in some of the posts we had
to produce for our blog. I then realized that I can use an interview to work
with the other writing style. I thought about how an interview can help produce
an essay with the results I got from it. I came to an understanding that
interviewing me would be a great way to put my own words into an essay form. An
interview would work well with the combination but that wasn’t the end of what process
was to my hybrid essay. I still needed to find how I wanted to piece it
together.
One problem with my conclusion was
that I couldn’t interview myself with my own questions. I then began the quest
to find questions I could use for my interview. I referred back to the prompt
that was given to us for possible options and then I see that there are
questions there to use to help frame our hybrid essay. Rather than using one of
those frames, I decided to use all of them to help build my interview necessary
for this project. I might have not used these frames the correct way but I felt
like I should have used all of them to help portray my own combination of
styles to show my jointed work piece.
I felt and believe that this was a
good way to portray my own understanding of my own blog for the reason that I
showed my work as a reader and the creator of this blog. Not only do I feel
like I portrayed my blog in the correct way, I also learned how to contribute
other writing styles in a way where they both work in a way where they flow
with each other. I also learned that essays are not necessarily a limited type
of writing. An essay can have many other contributions that can also help it
flow better than a simple ordinary essay I have come to know. Whether my hybrid
essay flowed correctly or not well enough, I learned how to compose to types of
writing works into a single jointed piece of work.
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