Diction and Syntax

     For myself as a blogger, I feel that the way I present the information I am giving is conversational and and at times a bit static. I feel that at times I can get into a rhythem on what topic I am blogging about, which I don't think is the best of things. What I'll do is, I'll start adding in commas and extending my sentences even just a few words to make my blog a little longer. I don't know if that's necessarily  a bad thing, because like I said I think the sentence length variety in my syntax is what makes it more conversational. back when I wrote on "Fat Boy Chronicles" in January I did this a lot. One example of this is, "How cool is that, to see a kid just like you and I become a very successful writer and teach kids the harmfulness of bullying in the process." At the beginning of the sentence when I said "How cool is that" that's what I'm talking about. Creating a conversational syntax feel can I guess create a not needed length to your blog, but also makes the reader feel at home. Overall, I think my syntax throughout my blog is consistent in trying to create a conversational feel through my sentence lengths. 

     

     Diction on the other hand is something that I feel I should work on to finish out the year. Finding GOOD diction in my blog posts can be a struggle sometimes, and maybe that's because of what I said earlier of sounding conversational. In my everyday life I wouldn't use the high vocabulary words that we see in for say informational texts, which prrroobablyyy isn't a good thing. I'm almost certain there is a way to use those words and still sound conversational, but I just haven't gotten onto that level yet. So that's something that i should probably work on throughout the rest of the year. Something I could try to do is ATLEAST while I'm writing my blog, look up a new high vocabulary word that i can incorporate into my blog. That would at least be a start right?

     

     Overall I think that my syntax is far better than my diction, and that I do a good job keeping it conversational. The sentence variety in my posts is a key component to keeping a blog sound like a conversation. That and even sometimes only using fragments kind of like we do in real life. I feel the goal and things I can try to improve my diction will be helpful in the long run because I will be learning at least one new word every post.