Evaluation

I found writing the blog for French Proficient 2 to be an interesting experience. I definitely felt that it challenged me to increase my French vocabulary and improve my French grammar.  It also gave me the opportunity to learn more about French culture.

On the other hand, instructions for each blog post were often vague and it was not clear what the ‘genre conventions’ were. Furthermore, instructions were not clear on how we should reference our work. As I had never written a blog before, and am not a very techno-savvy person, I also found making the blog rather difficult at times. 

I found that I got stressed with meeting the deadlines for the blog posts and would have preferred it if they were more spread out over the semester. I also felt that for the amount of work and effort that we put into our blog, it was not reflected in its worth towards our overall mark for the unit.

Overall, I liked that the blog was different to any other assessment I have undertaken at university, and that it gave us the opportunity to be creative. I think that the blog challenged me with writing in French, and it was very beneficial in this aspect, although I’m not entirely sure I’d like to do it again.