My lacrosse team just won the first round of championships this morning against UC Davis and we're going on to play UCLA tonight at 6 so if you're reading this before the game, send some good luck vibes our way! If we win tonight then we play for 1st place in our division tomorrow morning and a guaranteed spot to go to the national championships next month!!!!
Anyways....This week we really dove headfirst into our WP1s! At first I was a little overwhelmed, but I think I pulled it out well. I’ve tried to stay on top of my work and it’s definitely paying off by having more time to sit and think about my paper like Zack talked about in class. Something else Zack mentioned in class really stuck out to me and encouraged me to really amp up my thesis. He said to raise the stakes of your argument, and that helped me change my thesis into a stronger one (I hope!). I also really appreciated the direction he gave about peer reviewing. Most specifically, only writing questions down on someone’s paper was really helpful for me. I’m still struggling a little bit with the dashes in my paper. I tried to use one or two, but I’m not sure if I’m executing it properly. Looking back at the journal responses, it seems a lot of people are enjoying the topics they chose! 15 and 16 in the responses talk about how their paper is a little long and how they might be rambling on a little bit and I had this issue when I was first writing my paper too. The advice I gave myself was to cut out a lot of the unnecessary words like “really” or lists that weren’t needed. Basically anything that wasn’t essential to my argument or to describe something important, I cut out. I ended up with a paper still almost 6 pages long but I think that I cut the fluff (a phrase my old high school English teacher used to use that stuck with me!) out of my paper. I’m really excited to see how I end up doing with this paper since I haven’t written a formal paper in a year or two. I definitely put good work into it and given it some careful thought. One last thing, thank you Zack for letting us get our papers peer reviewed before we turn them in! Such a good opportunity to get one last set of eyes on it!
Anyways....This week we really dove headfirst into our WP1s! At first I was a little overwhelmed, but I think I pulled it out well. I’ve tried to stay on top of my work and it’s definitely paying off by having more time to sit and think about my paper like Zack talked about in class. Something else Zack mentioned in class really stuck out to me and encouraged me to really amp up my thesis. He said to raise the stakes of your argument, and that helped me change my thesis into a stronger one (I hope!). I also really appreciated the direction he gave about peer reviewing. Most specifically, only writing questions down on someone’s paper was really helpful for me. I’m still struggling a little bit with the dashes in my paper. I tried to use one or two, but I’m not sure if I’m executing it properly. Looking back at the journal responses, it seems a lot of people are enjoying the topics they chose! 15 and 16 in the responses talk about how their paper is a little long and how they might be rambling on a little bit and I had this issue when I was first writing my paper too. The advice I gave myself was to cut out a lot of the unnecessary words like “really” or lists that weren’t needed. Basically anything that wasn’t essential to my argument or to describe something important, I cut out. I ended up with a paper still almost 6 pages long but I think that I cut the fluff (a phrase my old high school English teacher used to use that stuck with me!) out of my paper. I’m really excited to see how I end up doing with this paper since I haven’t written a formal paper in a year or two. I definitely put good work into it and given it some careful thought. One last thing, thank you Zack for letting us get our papers peer reviewed before we turn them in! Such a good opportunity to get one last set of eyes on it!
No comments:
Post a Comment