Persuasive Analysis: The Book of Negroes

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The type of essay I chose to write for “The Book of Negroes” is a persuasive essay. Choosing this type of essay with allow me to organize my thoughts by using specific quotes and examples from the text to support my thesis statement. Although, an argumentative essay would work, I feel more comfortable writing a persuasive essay as I’m able to add my own emotions in my essay.

The first media text I chose to create for my portfolio is a blog post because there is no specific instruction to follow as I’m am able to write in my own personal opinion. Writing a blog post allows me to be more creative with my ideas to add in my response. Also I’ve wrote tons of blog post over the course of this semester, so I’ve learned what to have in my post making …show more content…

This is because it will allow me to be more creative having more of a visual representation of my thesis my adding many images to showcase “The book of Negroes”. I am able to add hyperlinks from other sources as well as headlines to catch the reader's attention.

The third and final media text I chose to create for my portfolio is a concept map. This is because it will allow me to draw out all the connections and characteristics of characters throughout the text and help me prove my thesis statement. Using a concept will help me as well as the reader to easily identify all the ideas within the map.

Throughout the course of semester, I have developed many essential skills as a media text creator. We’ve been asked to do at least one of the media text once throughout this semester allowing us to fix our past mistakes and improve upon that. Challenges I will face throughout this assignment is I longer have the book in hand with me, so I may have to go back through previous assignments/blog post to find specific quotes that I’ve. I may have to retrieve the book back and refresh my memory of the book as it’s been a couple months since I had last finished the book. The start of creating my web page may be a bit difficult to get started with because we’ve dealt with majority of blogs this semester, so I may have trouble getting started with how I want to explain/showcase the purpose for an example to the audience.

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