Let's Bring it Back to Basics.
What feels like eons ago, I started schooling here at Southern Arkansas University. One of the very first classes I walked into was 'Introduction to Mass Communications'. I still reminisce on the nervous attitude I had towards everything and just how under-prepared for college I was. I went to Wal-Mart earlier in the day because I didn't have a backpack for all of the things I didn't know I was going to be carrying. So I sit down in the middle of the classroom, a couple of rows back from the front screen, and wait for class to begin. About a minute or so before class started, a guy walked in with a military buzz cut and a stride that presented nothing but confidence. He looked around for a moment, seeing most of the other seats taken, and he sat next to me.
A couple of minutes went by without saying anything to each other. I then realized I probably wanted to have some paper ready for class. I reached down to grab my backpack when I noticed it had moved under his chair. I worked up some confidence to ask him to scoot back, before I realized that it was actually his backpack. I turned around and looked at my backpack lying behind me. We looked at one-another, then at the backpacks, and laughed because we had the same backpack.
This man was Rhett Gentry, and he was my first friend here at Southern Arkansas University. We have a lot in common, from backpack, to major, to favorite TV show, and the list goes on. I couple of years ago, we shared a class called 'Reporting and Writing for the Mass Media' and in that class Rhett did a classmate blog critique on my blog, diving deep into it. I've decided to return the favor this time around, and will be diving into Rhett's blog.
Here is a link to Rhett's blog.
Appearance
The blog isn't too over-the-top when it comes to color scheme or fonts. The homepage is very simple to access and find what you're looking for, with not too far to scroll down to see all of the work on the website. I actually prefer that style of blog simply because it's much easier to find specific assignments compared to mine. My website reads like a newspaper or a forum, whereas his reads like something more professional. I really dig it.
The background is very simple, a nice image rather than bland colors like my blog. I am a bit disappointed that Rhett didn't add a profile image on the side like he normally does, but it is what it is. The images he uses for the title-card for each assignment are usually nice to look at, assuming he didn't use a meme again.
Format
Rhett has yearbook experience, as well as writing as many blogs as I have in the past four years, so he knows how to format his work. It's very concise and organized into small, 3-4 sentence paragraphs that make the work easy to read with a great flow. He's like a miniature Suzanne when it comes to formatting, but he lacks length to fit that comparison fully.
Content
The content is well above-average. In fact, I'd call it exemplary. Rhett definitely put a lot of work into his essays in high school. He's a big fan of using sequence words to organize his points, which makes the content easier to read in the long run. Though I am not a fan of sequence words, I think they're appropriate for his style of writing.
My primary complaint with his content comes from his punctuation. Sometimes I feel he misses a comma here and there, but nothing too major to ruin the entire piece. Other than that, it's nearly perfect.
That's all I really have to say about Rhett's blog. Check it out if you want to read into it more than I have. Maybe you'll find a military conspiracy somewhere.
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