Reflection

  Words that I’ve used to indicate my voice would be words like anyways and TV show and 2 PM. I was writing like I was talking to an everyday friend. Very casual. It shows my personality by showing I’m an everyday person. I wasn’t trying to spruce up my blog posts like I was about to give a speech to the president or to the Queen of England. I was just me.

  To enhance my writer’s voice I used low/ informal diction and different sentence lengths. One time I wrote, “You could tell that he wrote it and maybe visualize his voice reading it, even though you don't watch a TV show called Ben every day at 2 PM on channel 3” (Vicknair). That was a long sentence right. After another long sentence I put a short sentence, “Take Ellen's book for example”. I wrote with different sentence lengths everywhere. For my low/ informal diction I said, “Every time I picked up her book and read, I could hear her voice reading it to me, like we were talking all day long.” I could have changed read to perused and voice to articulation, but I wanted informal diction, not formal where the words are more challenging and you don’t use in an everyday sentence.