Synthesis essay of project 3

                  From September until now, I worked on the blog project every week. Now the project is about to finish, and I will make some claim about what I have studied from this project. This project is not only helping me study in music field, but also practice my writing skills, and build my belief. I studied some researching skills about how to judge reliability of a piece of information. I also learn how to write a news on a website to my blog objectively.

At the beginning, it was really difficult for me to research the correct information I needed and cited it correctly. For example, my first week blog post is really rough because I didn’t know how to transfer the language in website to my blog. And also, I didn’t cite it because I didn’t know I needed to cite each resource that I used from the internet. After I finished project 1, my instructor told me that I need to have a work cited page at the end for each resource that I used. This is a really efficient way to make my audience understand what I write, and it’s also a way of respecting the author of the resource. It helps my audience to understand where my information came from. If it’s necessary, my audiences may go to the website themselves to explore more knowledge in the field.

In addition, this project also helps increase my writing skill. As a writer, I need to consider the feeling of my audience. I need to represent all the information objectively without bias. The post of October 17 about “Contemplating Controversy”is really good example. This post asked me to find a controversy in my field and introduce it without bias. I found a resource on the debate website. I needed to read each sentence really carefully because some sentences include bias. I needed to pick both sides of information correctly and present it objectively without using “I think”. This is the basic ability that each writer should have, and I learned this in blog project.

This project also helped me to build my belief of music. I am a rock music fan and also a guitar player in a band. And I am really familiar with how the band works. After I finish this blog, I find as a music person, it’s more important to learn the meaning and theory of music. I think the free post helps me a lot in this part. In each free post blog, I looked for some news in my field. During this period, I found there are so many conflicts and theories in my field. The free post of week 7, I talked about “lip-synch”. It’s a technical term for matching lip movements with sung or spoken vocals. I never knew about this, and after I read the article that talked about this, I changed my mind of “lip-synch”. Not all “ lip-synch” is good, but sometimes it is necessary. This totally changed my belief about the field of music show. Also I believe there are more conflicts like that which I never knew before. This project really helps me to know more about my field, and build my belief.

Finally, this project helped me a lot on my researching ability, writing skills, and realizing my field. I find it’s really easy to learn this way. We can talk about some opinions that we have, and blogs use Internet to deliver information, which I like the most. It’s a way for me to show myself to my friends, instructor and public. Also we can learn more when we get feedback from them.