Statement of Process

For this blog exit project I’ve had a very long process in making my blog well developed and to have solid information that matches my topic and that is appropriate. I created 10 posts for this blog including images, obitchuarys, diaries, and a bibliography and much more. My topic for this blog is the industrial revolution the expansion of railroads. My posts went through a couple revisions leading to changes some minor some big.

For the first blog post I made a very informative timeline naming and explaining important information and dates from 1645-1851. In this blog post I took information from an informative packet that Ms.Sackstein let me look at and I pulled out important dates from a certain period of time to another and then I made it into a timeline. I decided to make a timeline my first post because I felt that it was an easy way to start and would set the tone for the rest of the project that it would be not to challenging but not a piece of cake, and this is what I wanted.

My second blog post I made was also a very informative piece but it was an essay. Surprisingly I expected this blog post very challenging but it wasn’t. This post started off with a lot of information but I didn’t know what to do it did not match any genre so then I though I could change it into an essay and I would just add more information so it would match the length of an essay which it did.

My third post was very similar to my second post I just wrote down random information on my topic and posted it then I didn’t know what genre I should put it in and then I finally decided to write it as a diary entry. I thought it was very creative. I choose to make this post into a diary because the format and tone of the 1st post matched it in a way that I identified it clearly enough I saw a door open and I went through it that’s how I ended up with this final post.

My fourth post is a letter from Samuel Slater who is the finder and inventor of the first locomotive railroad to his mother back in the United Kingdom because he came from the UK to come to America to live the dream and get his inventions further. I found the idea to create this post from my third post because I found that letters and diary entry’s are very similar but they weren’t in the same genre so it would come about to another genre so I made this.

My fifth post is my bibliography full of information linking where I got all of my information. I have web sources, image sources, primary sources, and some book sources. I evolved to a much better writer when it comes down to bibliography I can identify it and explain it.

My sixth post is an obitchuary based on James Watts who created the first steam engine, now Watts is a very interesting character he created the steam engine a few times to correct on his mistakes and improve. In the beginning of the school year I did not know what an obitchuary is until Ms.Sackstein taught me what it was. This blog post started, as a monologue but it didn’t sound good so I changed it to an obitchuary and then from there I added more information and transformed it into an obitchuary.

My seventh post is a post focusing on Samuel Slater, Richard Trevithick and their creation of the first locomotive railroad named the John Bull. It is a one-act play on both of them. The scene is just one day both of them find time to relax and then start discussing the future plans and goals and predictions with the locomotive.

My eighth and ninth post are two images involving railroad expansion and locomotive railroads. My tenth post is a glossary defining all challenging words used through out this blog or linking with my topic and its discussions.