Thloggin through the 6 with my woes

This week I learned everything from my hotel room in a shitty events center outside of Winston-Salem, North Carolina. For an update on my team, we went in ranked 15^th in the nation and only went up three spots to finish 12^th. The highlight of my week at nationals was when we beat 7^th ranked Virginia Teach 12-6! But we ended up losing to 2^nd ranked Colorado State by 1 and 6^th ranked UCLA by one. Hopefully we can get a chance to prove ourselves even better next year!

            Anyways, abut writing 2! I’m pretty bummed that I couldn’t be in class and get the full effect of the lessons, and I think my WP2 is struggling a little bit for it. I wrote my draft when I got home yesterday and I’m not really happy with it yet. It needs a lot more work, but I’m glad I have until Wednesday night to get it done! I’ll definitely be spending more time on it, so whoever reads it over today in class… don’t judge it too hard, it isn’t quite what I want it to be yet L Some things I hope to focus in on more clearly are differences between conventions and moves. I think I only really glanced over those in my paper and I think I can write a lot better. Also I need to put in more textual references. That’s something that really hurt me on my last paper and I should utilize our class readings more this time around. Something that helped me was seeing other student’s WP2s! I read Rosie Red’s after struggling with my own for a few hours, and was able to learn a little bit about how to structure my own paper from hers. I appreciated the brackets writing tip from last Monday’s class and I think I used it correctly in my WP2! I had always wondered what brackets were for and how to use them, and now I know! I think the lesson on hedged language was also helpful, I always thought that as a writer you needed to take risks and be 100000% confident in your argument. I appreciate the connection to psychology (any other social sciences) about studying people and never really knowing what’s going on inside someone’s head. It is smarter to hedge your bets in those cases since you can never really be 100% certain.

            I’m excited to be back in class today! I’ll see everyone later J