Rationale of blogs

When entering this class and seeing that we had to write blog posts I was not sure how I would do or how I would manage seeing as how it would be my first blog. The topic I focused on mostly was the pay of collegiate student athletes. Upon first choosing this topic I was not very sure about it, it seemed interesting and something I felt I could write about but I didn’t know much about it. As the class went on and I got the hang of using the blogs and what I needed to do the level of interest in my topic increased as well because I wanted to learn more about it so I could make better blogs and write more in depth. When first researching my topics I used a broad scope “why student athletes should be paid” I felt that they should but I did not have a reason why and I also did not know why they were not being paid. As the post went on I furthered my researched and went from just being interested in my topic to actually being a supporter of athletes being paid. I learned that through my research certain sources were not as credible as others. For this topic sports sources like ESPN and others like it seemed to be the most credible for this topic, while other sources; like those of sports blogs or people who started websites of their own were not. The evidence I used in my blogs was accurate graphs and tables I got from credible sources to show the amount of money colleges and universities make and I also used pictures relating to my topic to draw more interests to my blog.

From this project just building my blog up over time I learned that certain things work and others do not. With blogs the text cannot be too long so in the place of these blogs I used pictures, graphs and videos. The videos I used focused on my topic and I used it because I felt it would help further explain my topic better and give the readers a better understanding of my blog and my views as a whole. I used pictures throughout my blog to help add culture and make my blog more readable and interesting. Also I used pictures as evidence of my topic. A long with the graphs and tables, some of the picture used helped me to get my information and ideas across in a way that words could not.