A Reflection on Blogging
In preparing to write my blog post and discourse analysis, I first had to do research and read about the topic of declining honeybee populations. Reading Bryan Walsh’s “The Plight of the Honeybee” and Leah Duran’s “The Buzz on Climate Change: It’s Bad for Bees” provided me with two unique perspectives to analyze within the context of the discourse surrounding honeybees. In both articles, the authors discussed the negative impact that the decrease in the honeybee population is having, but they went about doing so in different ways. Walsh’s perspective as a beekeeper and Duran’s perspective as a scholarly professor impact the way that they engage in the discourse. Their unique perspectives can be analyzed within the context of discourse theories outlined in both Carl G Herndl and Stuart C. Brown’s “Green Culture: Environmental Rhetoric in Contemporary America” and M. Jimmie Killingsworth and Jacqueline S. Palmer’s “Ecospeak: Rhetoric and Environmental Politics in America.” Through
