Reading Diary Week 8

No, there is not any information from the instructions that I had not noticed before. The main strategies I use in my reading diaries is that I write down the important events that happen while reading. I make bullet points as I go, and then after I am done reading I go back and write my summary. Some tips for other student would be to finish reading before the due date so they wouldn’t have to scramble to write a diary in. I use the same strategy each time. My posts started out long, but then reduced to a paragraph and it has stayed the same length. Overall I think my posts are a little short because I’m not much of a writer. No there isn’t anything that I should have started doing in my posts that I should’ve started earlier. I also cannot think of anything that I can do to my posts, unless I want to add pictures to give some visuals of the story. I have not added any images or included any quotes in my diary posts. Nor do I make connections to movies and books. I do take small notes while I am reading to help me write my diary posts. When I look at my old diary posts they fill in the missing details that forget over time, so yes they are useful. I guess I can add a little bit more detail to my diary posts in the future than giving a very basic outline of what happened to make posts more useful in the future. I do not use my diary posts when I am writing other blog posts throughout the week. Over all I believe I do an okay job of writing these posts but I could put more effort into it.  In general I remember a good amount of the reading in this class and other classes too, but I’m more focused on cramming for midterms. Short term reading strategies would be to read over something once, long term would be read carefully and then write down what you remember from the reading.