Review of CAAS121 Blog

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Constructive Criticism: CAAS 121 is very detailed and organized in all of their blog posts. By being so organized, these bloggers make it easier for the reader to navigate the page and find what they really want to read. There was not a lot of color or objects, which hurt these bloggers because it made the blog appear a little boring as a whole. All together this blog was put together nicely and was updated frequently, showing that each blogger is actively posting.

Blog Quality Criteria (1-10):

Voice: 4 As a whole, this blog lacks luster when it comes to voice. They are very thorough and serious in their writing, but not very descriptive or enthusiastic which in return brought the voice score below the average 5.

Passion/ Expertise: 7 It was apparent that the bloggers in this group know what they are talking about, and understand the material that they have learned so far. Due to this, their expertise score was raised above a 5, but their writing didn't make it apparent that they were extreamly passionate about their topics, so I was unable to raise the score above a 7.

Clarity/ Organization: 10 Clarity and organization is what made this blog great. The blog as a whole was friendly to the eye and easy to navigate making my score here a perfect 10, there is not much more they could do to make their blog more organized or clear.

Aesthetically Pleasing: 4 By the looks alone of this blog many people will skip over it and move on to another one. There is not much visually to the blog except for a few pictures in a couple posts. If they added some more pictures and color to the blog my score would raise to above a 5, but because it was pretty bland I had to give a score below a 5.

User Friendly: 9 There are seperate links on this blog so that the reader can see the topics they have blogged about and then choose which one they want to read and easily find it by clicking on the link. Because it was easy to find each topic on this blog I gave this category a high score of a 9.



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Interesting/ Original: 5 They were pretty average when it came to originality and how interesting the blog is. There was nothing that made it super original, but also nothing that made it completely uninteresting, so I gave this components an overall score of a 5.

Relevence: 9 The blogger were very relevent in their writing. They alway wrote, and wrote in depth, about each topic we have been discussing in class which increased their relevance score to a 9.

Frequency: 9 It is apparent that each blogger has been doing their assigned posts and doing them in a timely manner. They have posted about each topic we hvae done so far as well as discussed each topic thoroughly. Due to this I gave them a frequency score of 9.

Good Writing: 7 Finally, the writing was all pretty much grammatically correct and punctuations looked fantastic which increased this groups score above a 5. On the other hand, because there was hardly any voice in their posts I did decrease the score to only a 7.


By: Sydney Evans