Rationale

why it works and how it helps

The resources that I gained while creating this blog will help me in a variety of many different ways, for starters from the creativity aspect. This is my first blog and it challenged me to think outside of the box and be creative with what I wanted to say and how I wanted to format the evidence and my own opinions. This being my first time doing a blog it was challenging at first trying to figure out how I would format my work and what to include to make my blog informative but also interesting. Doing these blog posts also helped me with organization and only using what was needed and relevant for the audience to gain a clear picture of what I was trying to say. For blog posts you want to get straight to the point and leave all of the unnecessary details and things that stray from the subject out of your posts so that you do not confuse the readers. While working on my blog post the most useful sources that I used were news sources and business sources. Both these sources provided accurate statistics and had the graphs to go along with them. Finding sources was not hard but finding the right sources that could provide you with all of the data you needed became a challenge because not all sources are credible and reliable. Another challenge I had to overcome while working with my sources is finding correct graphs and tables to back up what I was saying.

I used many different multimodal’s to get my point across to my audience. The main ones I used were graphs and tables but I also tried to incorporate videos and pictures as well to keep my blog posts from being too wordy and boring. Again I am new to the whole concept of blogs so I wanted to try to be as creative as possible when using multimodals as well I wanted eye popping and colorful graphs as well as interesting videos and pictures that would keep readers entertained as well as getting my point across. The sources that I gathered related directly to my topic and usually help me gain more knowledge about the topic that I was making the blog post on.  I know that for some of the topics I choose it started out a tad bit rough when trying to find information from credible sources because some of the information did not sound correct so I had to really do a lot of research to make sure my sources were credible.