Final Blog Asssessment

For my final blog assessment in my Honors English 1B class, I had to write about my writing voice for once of my blogs, I chose this one:

 So as you can see, I have seriously been putting off reading The Abundance of Katherines by John Green. It's not that I don't like this book, okay maybe a little bit. But I mean it's kind of really boring right now! I can't relate to most of the characters, the plot is dull and has been going on for quite some time now, and I'm just not interested. I don't know. I didn't think these words would ever be coming out of my mouth about my favorite author, but I guess it just happens. Colin wants to figure everything out, while I'm more prone to just sit back and let things happen with no question. Lindsay is the kind of person who usually always gets what she wants and is very assertive. Again, in other words, I'm just pretty lazy. I guess I'm most relatable to Hassan because he just kind of goes with the flow until he really can't take it anymore, and then he lets his feelings out. I'm actually exactly like that, so I mean that's probably why I like Hassan best. But Hassan might not be enough to keep me reading this book. Colin is my least favorite character and don't think that will change. The book mostly focuses on him, so you can see why I'm not very interested. I mean, would you be interested if you had to read about a narcassistic brainiac who doesn't have any other passions beside Latin and formulas and getting dumped by girls by the name of Katherine? I don't think so.

Another reason I may be dumping this book is because I haven't read for a REALLY long time. And I'm not even exaggerating when I say it might be over two weeks. Is that bad? Whatever. Usually when I really like books or even just are interested in them I plow through them in a couple of days or at least a couple of weeks. This has taken me far longer. And it's not even like I'm the kind of person who would rather stab my eyes out instead of even just thinking about reading. I really enjoy reading, I've always enjoyed reading. It's sad, really. Like, I wouldn't even feel bad abandoning it. That's how uninterested I've gotten. I think I might just be being lazy, maybe I'm just too lazy to even find or look for a new book. Okay, seriously I need to stop. I'm going to get off my computer and find a book right when I publish this book. Okay, well, bye.

A specific phrase I say a lot when I don’t know what else to say is “I don’t know”. I almost subconsciously wrote that here. I didn’t mean to write it, I just typed it because we have been talking about typing how you talk, so that’s what I was trying to do. I was about to delete it when I realized it actually did show my voice and the readers of my blog would get to know me more as a person. I also say “I need to stop” a lot, when I’m doing something embarrassing or funny around people. I meant to show this in my blog post because I know it’s a part of how I talk, so I thought it would give more insight. I feel like the readers would be able to picture me saying these things and maybe relate it to how they talk or how a friend does. I also say “I mean” a lot to start out a sentence. I know I say it a lot because people tell me I say it a lot. Even my ECA (public speaking) teacher told me I need to stop saying it while I’m presenting. I say “like” a ton, and I know I kind of tried to incorporate that into my blog because I feel like a lot of people have a habit of saying that, so it’s relatable.

 

I used low and informal diction to describe how I felt about the book, to make it seem conversational, like the text was directed towards you. I used words like “like” and I wanted to use a lower style of diction. I felt like in doing that, I could capture any age group’s attention. I did include some good adjectives or higher elevated diction, but only in places where I would also say these kinds of words while I was talking. I really wanted my blog to sound like I was talking to you. That was my goal the whole time; it just took me a while to find that voice. I used short and long sentence length. Some sentences were short like “It’s sad, really,” which I really enjoy when I’m reading a book. I love love love fragments, so I try to include them while I write. I also used longer sentences like “And it's not even like I'm the kind of person who would rather stab my eyes out instead of even just thinking about reading.” I like this kind of sentence as well as short ones because it makes the writing fluent when you have sentence lengths that vary. Long sentence give writing a feeling of ranting or the kind of talking where you talk so fast because you feel like you need to take everything in, which I also sometimes go for.