Final Blogging Assessment

Final Blogging Assessment

Quote

The article interviews many school people over what exactly they think of doing Blizzard Bags. A quote that adds value to this article's conversation is "It's good because students are doing actual work that applies to the classes they are currently taking during the snow day. However, I think it's vague as to how much something is worth, what category it goes into, and more so students are kind of uncertain about how much effort they should put forth in the assignments. (Colleen Everett, Statistics Teacher)" This quote was chosen because it has a benefit of promoting the teacher's opinion of blizzard bags. This adds value to my conversation within the blog because I say that blizzard bags are really helpful, but I don't see any vagueness going on. So there can be very many different opinions on blizzard bags because everybody is just different. Using this short quote allows for a more thoughtful analysis of the text by the writer and a more engaging read by the audience because that quote is just one person's particular opinion on the issue she's talking about. So the writer is enabled to use a more thoughtful analysis of the text because she can go on showing more opinions about blizzard bags. And a more engaging read by the audience is enabled to be true because the audience can react to the opinions on the paper differently. Some may disagree with the stats teacher and say that blizzard bags are useless or dumb, whereas others might partially or fully agree with the stats teacher. This can probably continue, and some real debate could occur soon over this.

Diction and Syntax

Now, I will consider diction and syntax techniques that I used to enhance my own voice within the blog post. One diction technique that I used within this post is casual diction. Casual diction, in simple words is the utilization of words that aren't unknown to the majority of people, and they help present the writing in a manner, so it feels like the author is talking to us in a casual manner. The key to casual diction is the absence of hard vocabulary and words that are mostly used in our society. A syntax technique that I used in my blog post is anaphora. The quotes from the post that exemplify the above explained diction and syntax techniques respectively are "Teachers in Mason High School take grades outta blizzard bags sometimes..." and “I would work through each paper, I would work through each pencil, I would work through the directions."

Technology

To identify the technology used in the blog post, I had given a video of our school where they extend this conversation of blizzard bags another step higher. Please keep in mind that this video was recorded from another YouTube video. All credits go to the William Mason High School MBC News Organization for this one video. The benefit of using this video to enhance the conversation is that the audience can open their minds about this conversation and view more opinions about blizzard bags. The conversation is enhanced because there are just more opinions being promoted and the real case is concisely mentioned. This video allows for further thought and consideration by the audience because there can be many different answers given by school people to questions over what they think of blizzard bags, and if they like it or not. Teachers also participate in the conversation and since they are the teachers themselves, they are more likely to have less agreeable thoughts to be agreed by students. The teachers are in a completely different position than the students. The students are the ones that are mostly affected by this blizzard bag policy, though, so they can have the set of the most diverse opinions. More thought and consideration by the audience could be that there is no single agreeable statement of point of view on this case because the opinions all depend on who that student (the opinion-giver) particularly is and what his/her personality and angle on school is really like.  

Ending

For now, in my opinion, blizzard bags are super helpful because they help us students prevent an amount of memory loss. Some amount, but mostly unnoticeable, memory loss can occur in just one day. But it's still good to take the beneficial advantage of these days because what's it gonna be in the summer? School, or Play?