The blog post that I've made in this past semester that I think shows my ability to use textual evidence to support text analysis is my Krista Ramsey Article post. In this post, I was able to analyze how diction and syntax are used effectively in an article. I was able to pick out which lines of the article used techniques of diction and syntax in order to make the writing more appealing to reader. For instance, I could analyze how Ramsey used both elevated and casual diction and how she used syntax by taking lines out of the article and explain how they demonstrated these writing techniques. One thing that I struggled with while blogging was being able to read enough to be able to write a sufficient blog post. There were several times where I found myself at the day before the blog post deadline and I only had a few pages read from my book. This forced me to be able to use my time wisely enough so that I always had enough pages to read so that I could write a good enough blog po...
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Well, so far this book is turning out nothing like I expected. For one thing, the main character's brother has not disappeared yet. The first chapter spent a few pages foreshadowing some big fiasco where the brother, Lang, will be held captive by some sort of snake monster. Now on their trip back to their home from visiting their parents graves Lang has yet to encounter much danger. Stemming from that, there hasn't been any sort of epic quest to save anybody. Instead the conflict of the story isn't saving Lang from a danger already encountered, but it's stopping him from encountering it in the first place. So to begin the book I decided to read in a huge splurge so that I didn't have to worry about it during spring break, so as such I was able to read about half way through. Now halfway through, my previous predictions of the book have scored no points. Author of Ingledove : Marly Youmans As the siblings make their way back to their home Lang begins...
Welp, back at blogging, I suppose... The book that I picked randomly off a bookshelf and will share with you today is called Ingledove by Marly Youmans. If you want to ask me what I'll expect from this book then expect a pathetic response since I've only read the summary. The summary tells about two siblings who happen upon a fabled civilization in the mountains call "Adantis" (Atlantis?) where Ingledove's brother is very vaguely described to be kidnapped or taken or stabbed. I don't know the details, the summary says "drawn to a place of death", so maybe it's a literal place of death? Anyways, Ingledove is caught in quest to save her brother from whatever it is that's killing him. What I expect is a fantasy adventure where the main character must undergo several trials in order to reach her goal. The author of the book, Marly Youmans, is an author I've never heard of before. After finding a Wikipedia article about her I found that...
This article, written by Krista Ramsey, covers the story of 5 students from Lakota East who have released a 16-page package full of information about the use of guns in America. One of the most well-made lines in this article, in my opinion, is stated when Ramsey describes the project that the students had made. She says, " Under an eye-catching cover of a map of the U.S. formed by rounds of ammunition, they produced 16 pages of stories looking at everything from unanticipated results of restricting gun sales to the effects on the family of a shooter." I liked this line because it was able to utilize diction well and be informative of the project at the same time. Ramsey used words such as "produced" or "eye-catching" instead of more casual words such as "made" or "interesting". The sentence structure was designed so that both what the project's appearance and subject matter could be thoroughly described. For instance, Ramsey wa...