Thlog #3

This week we heavily focused on WP1, I thought like always Zack’s activities were entertaining but most importantly informative. My writing process for this essay involved many hours of procrastination and first order thinking. Without the pressure of making it perfect, it allowed me to write my pure impulsive thought. In class we discussed the importance of forming an argument about genre and supporting it by evidence. But being able to pass the “arguability test” For me this was the most difficult part, to me it didn't seem too clear what we are trying to prove within our papers. Now that i look back on my paper i'm realizing that i tried to carry my argument throughout my paper but it might have gotten a little blurry towards the end. But most importantly it failed to incorporate possible counter arguments, which traditionally makes the argument stronger because one is thinking ahead rather than one sided. To me it left like I was more focused on the conventions of genre which is what we’ve been covering until this point rather than addressing a certain stand one chooses to write about. I think having something to work with, the first draft allows me to focus more on the flow and what the reader will grasp from it instead of quickly writing a paper without a chance to revise and turning it in.

I find the weekly writing tips to be very helpful, because they are simple mistakes that have the potential to improve the whole writing piece significantly. For example I never really knew how to properly use a dash but i know it's very versatile and can take the role of parentheses or commas depending on the context. So, yesterday morning i saw Mr Jones - who is usually watering his grass at 5am- disappear within a very odd car. I think this is properly using dashes.