Thlogging with one arm

           This Wednesday I had surgery so I wasn’t able to get the most out class unfortunately :( . I’m really bummed I missed because so much valuable info is given out in class but I will survive! Monday, I really enjoyed the highlighting activity we did on our WP1’s before turning them in. It really highlighted (pun intended) the lack of class readings as sources in my paper and some lack of analysis that I hopefully expanded on in my revision that night. I definitely have a lot to improve on for the portfolio, which is good since revising a perfect paper wouldn’t be very fun or educational. I just finished the reading for Monday and I feel like I’m finally getting a better hold on how to read more critically and effectively. I think I’m taking better notes for my other classes out of my textbooks and that I’m getting more out of my readings since I can think critically about things like genre, purpose, and audience (among tons of other things obviously). I’m still struggling with getting sources into my paper and organization of my paper, but overall I’m proud of the first academic paper I’ve put out in almost two years. It’s been a long time since I’ve done any formal writing besides lab reports but I’m finding that I really enjoy it! I’m learning so much and now that I’m going into my third year, which hopefully means research papers, I think that the tools I’m learning to use will really be helpful for my academic career! I also really liked the points that Boyd made in “Murder! Rhetorically” I never knew that most people have the tools to write in genres that we aren’t trained in, like writing eulogies or a coroner’s report. I actually did the exercise everyone else did in class on my own today and wrote an online local news article about Mark Smith’s murder. Even though I’m not a local news reporter, it read very similarly to other articles that are out there, which was pretty cool!