Week 5 Thlog

          Going over Zack’s comments on my WP1 was somewhat crushing but at the same time very helpful.  I think a lot of teachers in the past have either not really cared or just didn’t look too much into my writing. They’ve given minimal advice so that I could make my work satisfactory, but I can tell Zack really wants to make us good writers. The comments were extremely honest, and necessary for me to ever be able to improve on my skills. He made many good points, like when he told me to get rid of all the “fluff” surrounding the important parts of the paper. I have always been that kid that just goes off on a tangent until I get to a point where the information isn’t relevant anymore. I knew that about myself, but his comments made me realize that keeping to the point is extremely important for argumentation and rhetoric.

         I enjoyed the activity that we did on Monday regarding the different disciplines and how they would analyze romantic relationships. It’s cool to see how many questions can be asked about one topic just based off of what your field is. The field I chose was biological anthropology and it questioned how monogamy has become evolutionary advantageous to humans. It sucks though because after doing that activity I realize that “romantic relationships” is a topic I would love to write on. It’s so hard for me to come up with ideas that are 1) easy to write about and 2) interesting to me. Whatever topic I choose, I’ll probably analyze biology and some other discipline, because biology is always my go-to and it’s fun to talk about.

         The “Moves” exercise on Wednesday was very informative because we really had to think about every step that Michael Jordan and The Rock made in order to fully understand the entirety of their famous “moves”. It’s harder to understand author’s moves in writing because they’re a little less visual: you have to dissect it out of the writing. It’s still kind of difficult for me to understand that anything a writer does in his writing can be considered a move, because that leaves EVERYTHING subject to being labeled a move, even the way the writer uses semicolons or pronouns. I think the PB2B will help.