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Unlike an essay or an analysis of a text a blog response encourages you as the reader to personally engage and connect with what you have read and respond directly to the text itself and the wider ideas and issues the text raises. Therefore these entries give you the opportunity to write in a semi-informal manner using first person statements to really show that you have thought about what you have just read.

While you may give you honest opinion about a text you must be critical and explain yourself in detail. There is nothing wrong about disagreeing with what you read but you need to support this with evidence and discussion that is well thoughtout. Thus your blog should be convincing regardless of whether your reader agrees with your response or not.

Remember that rather than analysing the text you are critically responding to what you have read, voicing your personal opinion that is supported and developed by discussion.

Below are some sentence starters you could use to help with your blogs. You are by no means limited to these but they may help with structuring your blog responses.

This (book, film, poem, song) was about... (give a short summary)

I really enjoyed/ did not enjoy this (book, film, poem, song) because...

After (reading, watching, listening) this I began to think about...

I struggled to relate to the ideas in this text because...

I think the message of the text was...

The (author, director) wanted us to think about...

I would (not) recommned this because...

In my opinion...

Honestly I thought...

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