You
are able to see the quality of my writing improving over the course of this
trimester because it is so much more substantial. My vocabulary has improved
over time as well as my textual evidence I include in my blog posts. (Textual
evidence in yellow and vocabulary in green.) When you add textual evidence to
your writing, especially when you are showing someone something or trying to
prove a point, it makes it sound more believable and will probably persuade the
person into thinking the way that you do. Oppose to, like in my first post, no
textual evidence you are just telling the audience something and not giving
them any reason as to why you think this may be the best book and they have
nothing to go by. Another key aspect is vocabulary. Your vocabulary makes you
sound more reliable, like you know what you’re talking about. In my first post,
I have barely any good vocabulary except for the word ‘lurking’ maybe. But in
my more recent post I used the word dialect. Which is a literary device as
well. But instead of putting this person has a way of talking, I said dialect.
One
thing I struggled with was figuring out what to blog about. One week I will
have a great, significant blog and it has so many good qualities and the next
week, since I used up all of my ideas, I give a less qualified post. I tried to
overcome this by reading more often and trying not to use up all of my thoughts
at once and posting various posts about each. A strength I had while posting
was the privilege of reading a good book. If you aren’t reading a book you
enjoy, then your posts won’t be very well written as well because you won’t be
interested in your topic either. I did meet my reading goal, even further than
I wanted to! My goal was to read 3 books by the end of 2013, and I am on my
fourth book. I mostly used goodreads.com for keeping track of how many books I’ve
read. I think I have improved a lot as a reader throughout the trimester,
especially when we were learning how to read from the Elizabethan era.
