Final Blogging Assessment in English 1-B

I will be analyzing my, "Too Many Spoilers" post for my final blogging assessment. One purposeful syntactical device I noticed was Anaphora, this is when I said, " pretty powerful politician" the repitiion of the "p" in those three words adds some of my personal humor(because I find that funny) and adds a little bit of a rhythm to the post. One purposeful diction choice I made was using elevated diction when I said, "He finds extraordinary stories about people or things doing amazing feats of courage and bravery, then says that he did it by writing it that way in his books" the use of elevated diction here makes it seem more like someone who knows more than I actually do, which should make the reader respect me more.

Over the course of this Trimester I have learned much about my strengths and weaknesses as a writer, but little about myself that I didn’t already know. Some things I have learned about my writing strengths are that I have good imagery and writer’s voice – so I have been told – but that I can still improve further. Some areas I definitely need to work on are; meeting deadlines, in general or the including of outside sources so that the reader can have a better understanding of what I’m talking about. I plan to improve these areas by constantly practicing making them better so that I can improve my skills as a writer and blogger. I will do this by paying special attention to these areas in future assignments and taking the skills learned in those assignments and applying them to what I write in the future. Once I have improved upon my weakest areas I will try to improve my strong areas, because you can never be too good at something to point of not needing to practice. Now, while I did learn much about my skills, I learned little about myself. I already knew that I'm not very good at meeting deadlines for work, and that I have horrible writer’s block whenever I have to work, or that I just don’t do work because I'm lazy. But, I did learn that if I just sit down and focus for long enough, I can actually complete the assignment fairly easily.