On careful review of a list of blogs, I settled down to review wordexplosions blog. My experience is a little stilted as all I have to view the blog is a cellphone, but I must say this. All of the images on the blog loaded for my phone, and all the posts were easily accessible. As such, the bloggi experience from a phone is fairly enjoyable though I may have missed out on certain background and organization facets of the blog.
As an English blog, most of the posts were what I expected: a group of people learning to write for English and blog together in a professional atmosphere. They review chapters of English books and make group posts together. I enjoy their personal insights about the English subjects. One of the things about this blog that I particularly liked was one of their more recent posts. They reviewed an essay for English, and carefully set up what they learned from the essay as a group. At the end, each of the members who had created the blog post put a paragraph about their own reflections on it. It gave a very individualistic approach while still being a group effort, and I almost wish my group could do something like that too.
On their individual chapter reviews, I could tell each person has their own writing voice. That was very nice and good too, though I feel that's probably the case for the blog I run with my group too.
My only criticism is the images they use are often words, such as in their review of example essay writing where there image is the word example in red. The text as image seems to take away from the focus for me and makes me a bit taken aback. The thing is, their name is word explosion and with words as images their name is quite literal and that amuses me. I have to give them props for that, and as such my feelings on the text as image is mixed because though sometimes it feels like it detracts from the blog it adds to the overall blog title.
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