Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Assessment


1.      This post in my opinion shows a lot of my writer’s voice. I create this by putting my personality in the post as well as my thoughts about the book I am reading. For example I created voice by adding in those parentheses to show my side thoughts as I am creating my posts. I said,” Actually a twisted story” (Harris). This is reflecting back on what I had said before as a side thought I was trying to get out. This specifically shows my personality by being straight forward to my opinion and thoughts. I also added the word,” personally” (Harris) to my post showing that it’s my opinion and I’m expressing my voice. The voice I show through my posts in very informal and as if I’m talking to my readers.

2.      In the post I created I used very purposeful but informal diction. Using informal or low diction is where your voice can be portrayed. I like to make it easy for the reader to understand my view and my writing personality. I said,” (The main reason why I chose to read this book” (Harris) as informal diction to show the real and easiest way to show why I chose to read the book I did, but simply talking to the reader. I used a lot of unique syntax in this post as well. Using the punctuation I did, or the parenthesis helps convey a lot. It shows my voice as well as informal diction. I used very consistent sentence lengths being not too long but not too short as well. I show both of these techniques in the sentence that says,” Some of his books like The Last Song or The Notebook even have a movie telling the same story.(Actually a twisted story)” (Harris). As you can see I also related back to other stories the author of my book has written to help the reader understand more.

Monday, February 3, 2014

Why do you think the author wrote this work...

For me personally i think Nicholas Sparks wrote this book for entertainment. It is a very interesting and engaging story. I'm the type of person who enjoys reading about the goods and bad that happen in a relationship. This book as well as many others of his books are about love and relationship's. Some of his books like The Last Song or The Notebook even have a movie telling the same story. I have not yet read these stories but i have seen the movies of both and they are both very good movies so i wouldn't doubt they would be good books as well. A Bend In The Road has been a very enjoying story to read with twist and turns all over it. I am considering about reading more of his books in the future and relating them back to his movies and other book of his.