III. Thlog

Although our class only met once this week, that one meeting was really helpful as we focused on peer revising our WP1s. Through the peer revising, I was able to get a feel of how much of my paper I needed to change or what I needed to edit or add into my paper. It was also nice being able to read other classmate's papers so that I could see how others structured their essays and see what ideas different people had. The most helpful part was probably getting feedback from the peers my group. They were able to read my whole essay and were able to gauge what my ideas were and could then better give me tips on how to revise my paper. 

I also thought that the first part of the group activity was really helpful because it allowed us to take an introductory paragraph and dissect it into different parts that we were looking for. When I write my papers, I don't usually take a lot of time to think about the so-what and who-cares so it was helpful to be able to look at other peers' introductions and look for different aspects in their paragraphs and for them to help me out and let me know if they found those aspects in my introduction. 

One thing that I had a hard time with this past week was actually picking a topic for my paper and then starting the paper itself. I found myself changing ideas pretty often and every time I would change my idea I would have to start the paper over again. But eventually I did manage to find a genre that I wanted to write about and was able to stick to that one idea.