Week 4 Thlog

Week 4 Thlog

              I had never heard of the “reverse outline” before Monday’s class. The concept has never been discussed by any high school or college professors. But I find it to be a very helpful tool. Being someone who tends to go off on a tangent when writing, the reverse outline will be very useful in future writing. I am one of those writers that accidentally adds way too much unnecessary information, which is usually one of the things that causes points to be docked off my assignments. But the reverse outline can help me easily pick out the unnecessary tidbits in my papers. Being able to use it to see if your paper matches up with your thesis statement is also really helpful so you can see if you need to adjust your thesis to your paper or vice versa.

              When we did the short activity on Wednesday where we were asked to think of questions about the “melted bottle” scenario, I had no idea what its purpose was at first. But when Zack then asked us to come up with certain disciplines that would ask these specific questions, the lesson started to make sense. I thought it was fascinating when we talked about how every discipline asks a different question about a specific situation For example, imagine a murder scene in which someone robbed a store and then shot the cashier. A psychologist might ask why the robber felt compelled to kill the victim even after he got all the money. An anthropologist might use this situation to ask a bigger question as to why murders have seemed to have increased in the United States. The perspective that all disciplines take on a situation are completely different, and their questions help to find different solutions, all of which are relevant to society. I am kind of excited about Writing Project Two because I am interested in analyzing these different perspectives.