Final Blogging Assessment in English 1B

This is some of the best things that I have read about so far in Navy Seal Dogs by Mike Ritland in my opinion. One great thing that stands out in the book is that the knowledge and information you gained in this book comes from a primary source. Mike Ritland was a former Navy Seal and instead of getting information by someone else over a broad topic it won't get you the best experience and information by someone such as Mike Ritland and how he got to where he is. He uses long sentences and some run-on sentences to express his writing.

Another great thing I find about this book is the first section of the book talks on his training and not just all of a sudden going into combat when you don't understand prior what happened. He includes a lot of elevated diction, which explains to you what he was feeling at the time. A quote to show elevated diction from my book would be,"Because adaptability to an environment is so key to a working dog's success, I do a couple of other things to enhance both the pups' prey drive and their comfort level with the unfamiliar"(Ritland 56). I mean I don't think many would succeed in the training that Mike had to go through. They were more tough and fierce and required more tough and fierce training than another section of the military such as the marines or the Green Baret.

This book does tell you many things you may not know and is a lot different from many other military stories. I would continue to read more books like these and hopefully someone else would too.


Mike Ritland

I included elevated diction to show how the training was going for Ritland. My quote from my post to show this is my quote in the post about how he uses elevated diction to show the special training for dogs. I included sentence lengths in my post. In my post, the second paragraph has many long sentences to include his experiences. The long sentneces make you wonder/think about his experiences he had to go through.

My blogging goal for the trimester was to include my voice more in my blog posts. And I think that I have improved my writing voice in a good number of ways, but is not as good as I wanted it to be. I discussed about my own feelings in my blog posts, and what I thought of what the book was saying. At first, I felt like I didn’t include my voice and I just included whatever the book said. I felt like I also did this in English 1A. Going through the trimester, I think I have included my voice in most of my blog posts that I’ve posted. Some of the posts though I think don’t really include my voice, as there may be just one line of my voice. Overall, I have definetly included and improved my voice in my posts throughout the trimester.