Potential sources

I must admit that this idea of blogging for an English class seemed a little weird to me at first. But the moment I chose my topic and started writing, right then and there it started becoming much clearer to me why an instructor would want to use this unconventional style of teaching in a classroom setting. The reason I believe blogging was chosen as a way of educating us students is mainly because of its effectiveness. Blogging I believe, forces us to get creative and venture outside the normal realm of academic writing. From the moment a student create a blog they then realize that they don’t have to stick solely to using written words, instead they could utilize things like images, videos, music or any other media they could think of that would better get their points across. Blogging also presents a sort of competitiveness, the fact that students know other students are reading their blogs, helps to create somewhat of a competitive atmosphere, because of this small amount of competitive pressure, all of a sudden every one's working hard to present their best blog. The other reason I think this method of learning is proving to be so effective to me is, as the author of a particular blog you get to decide what materials gets published on your blog, and as a result I think people are taking full advantage of all the resources available to them in the blogging world.

Well, now that this exiting class blogging is nearing the end, we’re now face with putting together an analysis paper, this paper will serve as a summary of our experience as academic bloggers. So in keeping that in mind, and the fact that I had to come up with three potential sources to support my analysis paper, I went out and search the enormous community of health and fitness blogs. After analyzing quite a few blog sites in my community, I was able to narrow down my choices to what seems to be three reputable sources. These blogs sites came across to me as just simply perfect to support my analysis paper.

The first blog I want to talk about is a blog from a DC fitness trainer that goes by the name Doug. The first thing that caught my attention as I was reading through Doug’s blog was the fact that he was an actual experienced expert in his field. Besides being an excellent fitness trainer Doug has also done things like,

Contributing to Men’s Fitness magazine, ACE Certified News, IDEA Fitness
Journal, and AtoZFitness.com. Featured fitness consultant for a variety of
newspaper and magazine articles, as well as TV and radio appearances. Media rep
for TEAM Arthritis, an exercise program sponsored by Pfizer and the American
Orthopedic Society for Sports Medicine. Fitness modeling in Miami. [Murphy]

The other things I found to be appealing about Doug’s blog was his essay to follow page layout, and also the smooth flow of his words as he wrote his incredibly informative post. In my opinion Doug's blog definitely appears to be the strongest potential sources for my analysis paper.


The reason I chose this next blog to be among my final picks is mainly because, one, its an health blog that supports a lot of my ideas. It support ideas like healthy dieting, it also supports the idea of staying away from foods that are potentially harmful to our bodies. But the thing that interested me the most about this blog was, the fact that the author seemed to be well informed about her topic, and with that she provides extensive information in the form of well researched data. Over all I found this blog to be extremely informative and that’s why I chose it to be one of the potential finalists for my analysis paper.

This third and final potential finalist was basically chosen because of its similarities to my blog in the sense it runs parallel with what I'm trying to accomplish with my blog. This blog consistently follows my mission in informing and educating the public about health and fitness. It also talks about a lot of the same issues that I’ve covered on my blog site as well. Topics like losing weight, fad diets, diabetes and maintaining good health. Even though I might not necessarily agree on the style and formatting of this blog, mainly the color, I think more importantly we share common interest about the things that matters most, health and fitness. So with these three great potential sources it seems like I'm going to be in good shape once I sit down to write my analysis paper.