II. Thlog

Week 2 has just ended, but I can already sense how stressful and busy this quarter is going to be. I found it hard to even find time this past week to keep up with the readings for this class, but I managed. With that said, I did really enjoy the readings that were assigned this week. I especially enjoyed reading "So What? Who Cares?--Saying Why It Matters because after reading it, I felt that my perspective on writing had changed quite a bit. I never realized how important it is to specifically address why the subject matters to the audience and to identify the audience that the subject could potentially matter to until I read the different examples of sentences with the so-what and the who-cares and then sentences where they were omitted. While reading those sentences it became clear how important it is to directly address the readers and inform the readers of why they should care about said subject. One thing in particular that I found interesting was how the so-what aspect is in a sense more important than the who cares aspect of writing. But it makes sense that telling a wide range audience why they should care rather than telling people about a subject matter that they most likely care about is more effective and more appealing to a general audience. 

Something that I learned from out exercises in class is that it is important to support your thoughts and ideas with facts and evidence. In the exercise that we did where we argued for the best restaurant in IV, we realized that the arguments that we chose as our favorites were ones that had a lot of points to back up the argument. 

I fell that I've a learned a lot in these past 2 weeks in this class that will guide me in writing a successful paper for WP, and I'm excited to see how my writing and thought process has changed thus far from the things that I've learned from this class, and how it will continue to change as the quarter goes on.