very motivating
very thoughtful and insightful

To Clay Burell

In fact, I did not read your post when I wrote this. I just realized it when I started writing about stuff that I like. You know I told you before that I used to hate writing. But when I wrote about basketball, and when I wrote about stuff that was going on in my brain all the time, things that were frustrating me, I couldn’t stop writing. There were so many things I wanted to scribble down on a piece of paper (or type it on the computer screen) so I could feel much more “expressed.” It wasn’t about the audience; it was about me. But as you said, there’s not a rule that says I myself cannot be one of the audiences.

When I finished writing this post, I told my friends to read it. Because I really wanted people to think about it, especially the teachers. That’s why I linked to your blog so you might visit my blog and read this. And maybe you can tell our English teachers to read this post?

Instead of trying to package the writing up as we usually do, I like to write like myself and try finding my voice, trying many different kinds of writing. And of course, without being worried about this being graded because I know there will be many trials and errors, like me.

And I hope the grades don’t discourage people in doing blogging. I see many people trying to finish this fast, and I’m sure blogging or writing won’t turn out to be any fun for them, which ain’t the purpose of this hw.. i guess.

Hope it’ll turn out to be something else. Something like how u improve in expressing yourself and also the writing style, instead of looking at how well you’ve made it fancy by pictures or videos. It’ll be better if you could grade how much you enjoy writing, but since that is impossible, that’s out of the question haha…

Well, it was something gud to think about, Thanks! XD

I could quibble a bit with the “if you’re writing for others, it’s typing” line, because I still argue no writer wants to write crap, even if they’re writing for themselves only. In that sense, private writing is writing for an audience of one - yourself.

But overall, I’m with you on much of what you say.

I think you’ve read my “For the Roses: My Latest Position on Classroom Blogging” post. A great conversation is going on at the bottom of that comment thread with a woman named Adrienne about the idea of not grading blog writing at all - requiring it, but not grading it.

But I have to say, Younsuk - your writing is nice and strong here. I’m glad you didn’t put it on a piece of notebook paper or a private journal. Others should read this - and comment. The question it asks is a good one: how do students think blog writing should work? How be graded?

Thanks for making me late to school

just visited.
I know it sounds corny but- I guess this piece of blog is very motivating to me, cause one reason I didn’t wanna blog was because I didn’t want to write for others to see but just for myself. Having a rubric itself and having to hand it in does make blogging unattractive.

Hopefully one day we can be writers for ourselves not for grades or others.

P.S.
you can visit my unpolished, blog http://iljeek10.kiswrites.org/

btw im gonna steal ur “top10″ thing and make my own volleyball one! I’ll credit you don’t worry