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English Blog Reflection

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 post. One strength that I had during my time blogging was that when I did have enough to write about, it was easy to let my mind flow out and write whatever I wanted to.

Blog Post:
http://diegosreadingblog.blogspot.com/2015/01/krista-ramsey-article.html

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