Week 6 Thlog

Week 6 Thlog

              Discussing moves a lot more this week kind of helped me understand more of what moves are: they’re basically any decision you make in writing in order to improve your rhetoric. A move can be very broad, like a certain paragraph structure, or it can be a certain word you use often to surprise readers, to get their attention. The ambiguity of the term move will make it easier for me to pick out the different moves the authors of my three WP2 sources make; I can compare overall essay structure and then dive into the smaller details like the jargon of their different disciplines. Wednesday’s comparison/contrast between conventions and moves was also helpful.

              Speaking of WP2, I’m really nervous about finding the perfect topic. I really want to write about something I’m passionate about, and I found a topic that interests me, but I’m having a hard time finding a second scholarly source in the sociology field. I have everything else and I already did my shitty first draft, but if I can’t find another article that relates to my topic soon I’ll have to start all over again with a new topic. I just really want to get a better grade on this WP than the last one. At first I thought it was going to be a lot easier than the last prompt but after searching for relevant articles I realized it’s actually going to require a lot more research.

              Going over the two sample essays by “The Chief” and “Red Rosie” in Wednesday’s class gave me a much better idea of what Writing Project 2 should look like. I think critiquing the errors in their papers helped me recognize mistakes that I can easily avoid now. And in general the examples kind of give me a guideline to work off of. The layout of both essays was fairly simple and structured in a way that exactly fit the prompt for our essay.