Final Blogging Assessment

Over the course my writing in my blog posts have grown from in my third post it said ”The reason I started reading True Believer by Nicholas Sparks because I have always been interested in reading a book by Nicholas Sparks for a while but I never got the chance. Now for our independent reading novel, I thought this would be the time to start reading his books.” This post involved no textual reason behind me choosing this book over all Nicholas Sparks’ other books. My quality of writing from that post has improved in my new posts like in my sixth post when I said “If I were to as about his family he would probably respond with “Even his highly emotional Italian mother didn't believe that true love could blossom overnight. Like his brothers and sisters-in-law, she wanted nothing more for him than to marry and start a family, but if he showed up at her doorstep and said that he'd met someone two days ago and knew she was the one for him, his mother would smack him with a broom, curse in Italian, and drag him to church, sure that he had some serious sins that needed confessing.” In this post it shows me using more textual evidence to prove my point more than my previous posts just stating what I think and not using evidence to prove it. From post to post my writing has gotten much better as I went through and understood the book more and what I can really write. The quality of my blog post has also improved with the type of information I put in it including the actual quotes from the book. Over time I think my writing quality has greatly improved.

  An area of struggle that I had during these blog posts at the beginning of the trimester was to know when to use the quotes and evidence to prove my point better. What I did to overcome this struggle was to pay more attention to the details while actually reading the book to find the good quotes to better improve my understanding what I was writing in my blog posts. Another area of struggle that I had while writing the blog posts was using the appropriate language so more people could better understand what I was trying to explain in my book. What I did to overcome that struggle was to write it in the language a person in my grade would understand, which helped me understand, helping me to be able to explain if anyone needs an explanation of what I’m writing. A strength I had during the blogging was the length of the posts having to be at least a paragraph. During the blog posts the length of my posts were the how long they were supposed to be. Mostly all my post an explanation for the point I was trying to make. I think my strength helped me have better improvements and get better at the blog posts.

What's Next?

Now that I have finished True Believer, my next step would be to continue reading Nicholas Sparks books. The development of the story as it went on made me want to read more of his books. Also his books are highly recommended by many different people. As I read this book I noticed the elevation of diction or word choice varied as the book developed. The tone of the book also varied on the situations happening to the main character. Throughout the book his language used to describe different things didn't change much. The next think I will probably do is also read different books that are similar to Nicholas Sparks' writing style. Overall, to find and read book similar in writing style of True Believer.