This was my best post from fourth quarter because I used a topic that was being covered in class to make my post more relevant, and I used research to show the correlation between states with extensive lists of banned books and the quality of their education systems. I am also proud of how I briefly used historical background to give context to the reader, but I feel like I could have referenced a source when mentioning the history of censorship in schools to further solidify my claim.
If I were to change this post, I would have used data from the past to prove to the reader that "fewer and fewer states and school districts actually bother to maintain lists of banned books". Even though this phenomena truly occurs, it would have been much more effective and perhaps more believable if I had hyperlinked the text to at least one of the studies I looked at.
Overall, I firmly believe that my blog has progressed significantly since the beginning of the year, and even since third quarter. I usually don't consider length of posts to be a critical factor of their evaluation, but when reading through them, I realized that my longer posts delve deeper into the subject and I analyze more sides of the story. And although I have been blogging a bit less frequently, I take more time when creating a post and I feel like it makes up for the lack of more posts. I am also very grateful for the whole concept of blogging for this class. I was very much opposed to it at the beginning of the year because I felt like it was more of a burden than anything else, but as time went on, I noticed that it has improved my writing so much that I cannot think of any other way to have developed my craft in such dramatic fashion.
