Using blog Post to generate ideas

Blogging the way that we have done thus far in class, reading papers related to what we will be writing in our papers and then blogging about those readings, is helping me to generate ideas for my paper. Each reading that we have read is triggering ideas about about the topics that I might want to write about, whether they are resonating with an experience that I have also had, as in “I Just Wanna Be Average”. Or something that I have learned in a more self taught way such as the articles by Malcolm X and Benjamin Franklin and Feross. These exercises have also shown me ways that I might not want to go about my paper, as in the article on learning to live google free, which I found a bit tedious to read.  

Not only am I beginning to generate ideas about what I might like to write about, through the repetition and practice of posting blogs I am beginning to feel more comfortable with the idea of writing in general. Also the interaction with my fellow classmates in class and through our blog posts helps me to see things differently and spurs on new thoughts about my own experience.