This past week in class taught me a lot about style and stylistic moves in writing. I really enjoyed the lesson on parallelism during Monday's class. It was nice seeing how parallelism is in a lot of places that we would normally not notice, such as in resumes, and how much better a resume with parallelism is than a resume without parallelism. I thought it was really helpful seeing the parallelism in sentences and how parallelism can occur only once in some sentences, but can occur several times in another sentence. I also really appreciated all of the tips that were given on writing. I have used all of the writing tips in the process of writing my rough draft for WP2. I especially liked tip #1. I never really realized how often I use the word 'says' to begin a quote or to cite and author, but after hearing that tip I changed all the 'says' in my WP2 to other verbs and I feel like that alone changed my paper pretty dramatically as there was much more variation in vocabulary in my essay.
"Peer revising" Sandy's paper helped me see what I should and should not do in my own paper. It was nice being able to look at a sample paper and do a reverse outline and revise the thesis. I really dug deep into that paper looking at ways that it could be improved. I tried to relate some of the "faults" that the paper had to my own writing style so that I could use the revisions I made to that paper on my own writing. Through the sample revision, I realized that some things that I want to improve on my WP2 are my use of direct evidence from the sources, putting my own voice into my writing, and adding to the so what/who cares aspect.
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