My First Quarter Meta-Blog Post

My blogging has changed dramatically over the past eight weeks. After all, this is my first blog and I am very much a rookie to the world of blogging online. But as the first quarter has progressed, I have noticed some underlying themes and changes in my online writing style.

First off, I have noticed a trend in most of my blog posts. Mainly, I seem to have gravitated towards the political issues that face Americans today. While each blog post does not contain political material, the posts that I have enjoyed writing about the most have involved American politics in a variety of forms. Even when the topic of my blog for that week seemingly does not involve the political sciences, I tend to attempt to make parallels to the political climate today. As the weeks have gone on, and as the number of blog posts have increased, I have also increased my usage of outside materials in my blogs. Instead of going on a tangent that no one could follow, I really have begun to use articles and quotes to keep the reader fully engaged and actively reading. I take account for these changes because I know that these documents will make my blogs more successful and understandable. I have also found that as my blogging has progressed, I am writing even more about events that happen in my own personal experiences. I think that this really helps my posts because it makes my points even more personal and introspective. When I have read my past blogs, I have been very surprised to see my opinion fluctuate so much in my writing. I believe that in the future, I really should ease off on the subjective and opinionated nature because I feel that this can have a negative effect. It forces readers to accept my opinions without any sort of flaws. I really don't want this because it doesn't allow readers to express their own unique and personal viewpoints that would most certainly enhance the discussion and conversation pertaining to that topic.

I personally believe that the blog post that best exemplifies my blogging so far in the first quarter in the one titled "Political 'Connectedness'". Here is the link: http://rennikss.blogspot.com/2010/10/political-connectedness.html