The website was interesting because of how it shows its ideas. Too often in countless books and websites, they use long and fancy words to show their points, which just makes it more complicated to understand. Purdue OWL was simple and straight to the point. For example, one page had several points about literary terms at http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/575/01/ It wasn't a 20-page overload of specific details. The page summarized it very well with good points and I understood it easily, and I liked the ideas it gave me how to create a story for the future.One piece of the website that I liked was "Writer's Block/Writer Anxiety". http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/567/01/ I liked it because with
it, I'm able to write this more easily. Many ideas from that certain topic I would probably have never thought about it. One idea from it is a one that I will use in the future. It stated if I got a topic which I found boring, then find an aspect of the topic that interests you, which will get the ball rolling.My favorite part was "Creative Nonfiction in Writing Courses" http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/753/01/ because for some reason since I was young, I always have loved any essays, personal or impersonal and stories that started with a question. It shows what path your mind is going in the essay or story. The question is the key that begins everything. If I made a story about my life, I would begin with this question; "What made me that I am today?" Then after that talk about my experiences, influences and the people I have had met in the 22 years of my existence. Another topic in it, "Generating Ideas for Personal Essays" was good. In the third paragraph, it spoke about how you would want to know what it's like to be a hot dog vendor who puts mustard on two thousands hot dogs every saturday afternoon. It said if you wanted to be able to write and know about it, a good way to do that is spend the afternoon with the food vendor. Talk with him, spread some mustard, and experience it firsthand, so you'll have a deeper and a more personal thing to write about.
I recommend it to any students who has writer's block, struggling for a good topic or something to build on. Purdue OWL will help with that. If you need proof, look no further. My proof is in the blog I just wrote.
You mentioned the parts you felt that you could benefit from the OWL website, you also stated the reasons of mentioning them. I liked the "joke" where you mentioned that this blog is the proof of the help from OWL.
ReplyDeleteI didn't see nor read the writer's block on OWL, but thanks for the link, I just read it. And I agree its very helpful. HAHA on the joke at the end of your essay, very true!
ReplyDeleteNice article. It flowed so well. I liked the use of pictures and the organization. I really liked the hot dog vendor idea, it does work! You can learn so much by going out and socializing. Nice blog. I wonder if OWL helped you write it at all...
ReplyDeletewow man nice blog. probably one of the best I've read so far. I like your sense of sarcasm and I agree OWL is VERY helpful
ReplyDeletelike everyone else said, you wrote this blog nicely! I really like your concept of hot dog vendor thing and i think OWL is defintely number 1!
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