Holy smacks. I just realized this is the first time I've done my thlog on a Thursday. I should celebrate.
Monday’s section was a big step in the right direction for me. I went into class really pleased with my paper, ready to submit it after class. We begun with an exercise where we highlighted and color coded four specific features of our paper: the main idea of the paragraph, textual evidence, course reading evidence, and personal analysis. I really benefitted from this exercise, because I realized that my paper lacked textual evidence and personal analysis. I also learnt that my summarizing paragraphs have no purpose, and don’t correlate with my thesis at all. Reverse outlining each paragraph, and highlighting the different aspects of my paper really helped because I became aware of crucial mishaps in my paper. After Monday’s class, I decided to reevaluate my thesis, and propose a whole new idea so that each paragraph correlated with the overall position of my paper. (S/O to Dan for helping change the WP1 due date — you’re the man, Dan)
I appreciated, as usual, Z’s set of writing tips. ESPECIALLY the tip on spelling people’s names right. It is very rare that someone spells my name correctly, but when they do I notice a profound increase in respect for them. I also enjoyed the writing/process tip of making your paper into a poem. I decided to break up each sentence of my second paragraph, and immediately noticed one or two BS sentences that really didn’t need to be there. So once again, this in-class exercise saved my paper.
The Murder! Rhetorically exercise we did on Wednesday afternoon was really interesting. It surprised me how easily we recognize genres, simply by noting a few key rhetorical features. For instance, the police report was recognized by the case number and the officer’s name. I’m learning more about genres as we progress through Writing 2. I’m not too confident that this WP2 is going to be insanely amusing, so let’s hope for the best.
J
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