A repost for Simply Grove

Kirsten Grove is an interior designer and shares many ideas and tips to help people create their own living space. This blog post is about how to decorate like an adult. Many students might be moving out or they're already living on their own, so this post can provide us some creative ideas on how to make our living space nicer.

URL: http://www.simplygrove.com/how-to-decorate-like-an-adult/  

A repost for Jeff Goins' Piece

In his blog post, Jeff Goins talks about the times when he feels unsuccessful while his friends are achieving their goals. He then explains that everyone has their own race to run, meaning everyone has their own talent or goal to achieve. Goins encourages his readers to go win their own race and not someone else's. This post is worth reading when you feel like you're failing at something while others are winning.

URL: https://goinswriter.com/choose-craft/  

Analyzing a Blog Post

In Jeff Atwood’s blog post, “Because Reading is Fundamental”, he brings up the topic of how people don’t read until the end of the article before commenting in the discussion board. He implies that talking or commenting on online discussions a lot doesn't mean it will lead to better conversations but listening or reading more will. Judging by the comment section his audience could be around any age between 18-40 years old. Their education level seems to be at least at the high school level which means their occupation is a student. Atwood introduces his blog post with an example of a user profile that has a post count. In his introduction he gets right into the topic which might draw readers in because they would want to know more about his topic. He is trying to prove to his audience that talking a lot doesn't mean it's a better way to communicate. There are two examples that he uses to support his main argument: The Ars Banana Experiment and The Slate Experiment. These examples show accurate results, therefore, the information is convincing. Atwood's proposed solutions are remove interruptions to reading, measure read times, give rewards for reading, and update in real time. His last sentence, "spend less time talking and more reading", sums up his main argument.

URL for Jeff Atwood's post: http://blog.codinghorror.com/because-reading-is-fundamental-2/