Michael Shanks

Upon entering the website I was very impressed. This is a neatly set up website that is one persons organized thoughts. Everyone has feelings, thoughts, concepts, arguments. Creating a blog website that lets you remember every thought and have it written down for record was something I thought was quite neat. They material and how it is presented reminds me much of how Adam Andrew writes his emails for the class assignments. I don't believe that the internet affects his writing. It only makes it more interesting that he is sharing his views on cultural literacy, change, innovation, imagination, which are all interesting topics. Another Shanks trait, is sometimes he leaves just pictures as posts to and for his blog. This could mean that he was thinking about the meaning or depth of the picture or wanting to inspire someone else to blog or create! I as a reader just try to get a sense of what he is getting at. One cannot read this with a closed mind. Thoughts need to be flowing freely. He also provides background information like videos from youtube for readers to really get the jist of the topic.He is such a good writer that it seems as though it is not a blog you are reading. This is academic inquiry. In our english 102 blog i believe most of the submissions are not academic inquiry and the writing we do on their much differs from our academic inquiry papers. But the blog is useful for getting out aggression on frustration. But in a sense isnt academic inquiry the notion of "getting something out" on paper. Getting your feelings and thoughts across. So in a sense they are the same. It seems to reflect Shank as a person with his peaceful and meaningful pictures all throughout the website. You get a sense of peace and just a person trying to figure things out in this complex World. So i believe that is is both representing Shank as a person in a professional way.