Stephen Ferrer

April 30, 2013

Sean Pessin Eng114   

Metacognitive Analysis

The world is ever changing. Things such as Technological advancements are being made, cures for diseases are being found, and the way education is being taught is changing are all examples of this surge forward into the new age. When we were in high school the thoughts we had about college is that it’s going to be very hard and that we are going to have to write hundred page papers for English. In some cases this is true, there are college students who have to write hundred page papers weekly. But what they did not tell us is that college will introduce us to a whole to world and a whole new way of learning.

            This semester in English it was exactly that. No longer were we writing essays upon essays, word after word, and page by page. It’s a progressing world and it is only right to move with it. In this time we live in many people hardly spend any time reading books or getting their news from the paper. Yes, that is still possible and people still do but this is the twenty first century and people have advanced to reading off of blogs and forums and finding their news on the web. For our final project in English 114 with Sean Pessin we were assigned to create blogs about a topic we feel strongly about. For me my blog consisted of things to improve the way of life and giving my audience advice on living life to the fullest.

            As I did at the beginning of this assignment I asked myself what is a blog. So I did my research and found out that it is a simple website where a person or a group of people post writings, pictures, videos, and opinions on a specific topic. I named my blog “Carpe Diem” which stands for seize the day and for a month or so I wrote about living life to the fullest and the ability to grab life by the horns. I enjoyed creating post for my blog because it was easy and it was a topic I believe in and love to talk about. Blogs do not only consist of articles filled with writing they also have videos and pictures. I did just that; I posted pictures and videos and usually accompanied all three in a post at times.

            I enjoyed creating this blog because it moved away from the normal five page papers that limit you to the one inch margins, twelve point font, and times new roman. Creating blogs also allowed us to view other people’s works and what they put up. Not only did I enjoy creating mine, I also liked reading many of my fellow classmates work. The diversity in the topics of the blogs really made it interesting. One day I could read up on Pandas and cars the next I’m engaged in an article about Greek life. 

            These blogs opened up my mind to the electronic workspace of English. Literature and writing is no longer confined to pen and paper. The world is moving forward and I expect to see more and more blogs being made. This was an excellent way to engage students in a topic. It was also more pleasing to read off of the creative websites rather then the normal boredom of reading five page essays.