The Uptake Report

The blog and website genre is a difficult topic to analyze due to the vast range of both topics and interpretations that are associated with each individual work. There are many variants that cause differences in structure, order, and the various components between works. The unbreakable conventions of a blog include columns, headers, sub-headers, images, and short paragraphs. The breakable conventions include lists, differing fonts, and using all capital letters for emphasis. The use of APAC and CHAT can be utilized through the analysis of the author. An author of a blog is anyone who has something to express about themselves or their interest. The author’s activity and the production process begin when they use a computer to create a blog. They create a blog by finding a site, brainstorming ideas, and turning them into separate post and topics. A blog is distributed via the internet and the audience is anyone who is interested in the given topic. The audience must have access to the internet in order to view the blog, and the socialization aspect is found as people begin to talk about the blog in their personal lives. Blogs can be received in many ways through education, politics, and hobbies. The topics can be very diverse and generally allow for many different purposes on different topics and for different reasons. Due to blog diversity, there are many multimodal aspects. In blogs, there are visual, aural, spatial, linguistic, and sometimes gestural that can be found in videos. The visual aspects are found in the colors and fonts of the blog, while the spatial element is found in the layout of the blog. The linguistic aspect is found in the vocabulary, while the aural aspect can be found in the music and sounds in a video. The gestural aspects can be found in a video or in the feeling received by the blog as a whole. For my writing process, I began first by researching blogs and finding examples. After I had researched some nature blogs, I then researched some of the unbreakable and breakable conventions. Finally, I began brainstorming ideas and topics that I then turned into this blog. The entire process was really fun and I enjoyed writing it, as I have a deep passion for nature and conservation. I really enjoyed the freedom within this project and the ability to make my own website. It was a fun project to close this semester with. Overall, the project was very interesting, fun, and I enjoyed writing it.