V. Thlog

I found learning about “moves” this week really interesting. I didn’t originally know what a “move” was exactly, especially in the writing world, but I learned that it is basically something in particular that a writer (or anyone really) makes that can be recreated by other people and that makes their work or their actions unique to them. The examples of MJ’s shooting techniques and The Rock’s “The People’s Elbow”, and pinpointing the moves made by Bunn in “How to Read Like a Writer” helped me better understand what moves are and how they can be super small details that can be looked over.

I also found the lesson on concepts and disciplines to be very helpful, and I think the lesson has better prepared me for WP2. Before that lesson, I was pretty confused about how I should go about WP2 and I didn’t really understand what the prompt meant by choosing an article from two different disciplines or how I could possibly find and article on the topic from a scholarly and non scholarly publication, but the lesson cleared everything up for me. When we were looking at disciplines and determine which disciplines are categorized as hard sciences, soft sciences, and humanities, I realized that was something I would not have been able to differentiate on my own (especially between the soft sciences and humanities) and I found that really enlightening!!

One particular part about class that I really appreciated was when we, as a class, were asked to say some of the notes that were given on our WP1s and as each classmate said their note, the rest class was asked to raise their hand if they received the same note. I really appreciated this because when I heard that other people received the same comment or criticism that I had gotten on my paper, it made my feel like I wasn’t so alone knowing that a lot of I wasn’t the only one going through the struggle.