Post Reflection

http://gabisreadingblog.blogspot.com/2015/01/krista-ramsey.html . I believe that my Krista Ramsey blog showed how I can use textual evidence to support text analysis. I used the text and found a solid quote to help me explain how her writing style is unique. It showed how I am able to use the text to help me prove a certain point about the text that I am reading. I also used multiple parts of the text to further stress my point, and it made my argument clearer. In the post I said, "'They abide by laws – natural laws – that we break without caring.' She uses the punctuation to stress the importance of the laws being 'natural laws'" this shows how I used the text to prove my point. I think this blog is a good example of how I analyse a certain text or texts. 

I have many goals for myself regarding my future reading. I would like to get faster at reading books, because it usually takes me a long time, and to become more adventurous with what I choose to read. I tend to only read certain types of books because I am afraid to start reading something and end up not enjoying it. I want to start reading things more closely, so that way when I have to read things closely I am used to doing it, because at some points this year I found it hard to read things closely enough to be able to write about them unless I was told to. Something else I want to improve on is looking for literary elements like theme, similes, metaphors, etc. in everything I read, again, to get better at the task for when it is during school or a test in the future. I also have many goals for my writing. I hope to get better at incorporating quotes into the text, making my writing flow, and incorporating more literary elements without it feeling forced. Right now I feel like adding literary elements in my writing is too forced, it always comes out choppy and unnatural, I want to use more of these so when they are required they come more naturally and I won't have to think about it as much. I want to work on making my quotes fit into the text too. I think it would make my writing much smoother and it wouldn't be as much of a hassle when trying to incorporate them. Lastly I want to work on making my writing flow together as a whole. I have found that this is something that is very hard for me to do in my writing. It takes me a while to find a good way to connect paragraphs and I really want to fix that. Overall I hope that next year, and maybe even over the summer, I can improve upon most, if not all, of these things and achieve my goals as well.