Thlog 6

WP2 is due this upcoming week!!! So far my favorite activity has activity 6.2 A Tale of WP2s. For me, reading other people’s work gives me the structure I need to begin writing a five page essay. My main focus this time is to try to incorporate quotes in a way that boosts the credibility of my writing, but also flows. I think reading my essay out loud will reduce the chances of sentences sounding awkward. My essays tend to be one sided when writing, so it was helpful when #7 asked why it seemed like the “Chief” was hating on psychologists. In my essay I will hopefully be able to present the different genres in a more factual way without letting my bias completely take over.

I also liked seeing the different resume examples. First of all, I need to clean up my resume so it gave me a couple of ideas of what I need to fix. Most importantly though it was interesting to analyze the different components of the resumes in relation to the moves that we have been talking about in class.

Another thing that I need to work on is parallelism. The examples we used in the lesson were clear, but when I’m writing I don’t always break down sentences to make sure that they are parallel to each other. When I read my essay most of the time I just skim to make sure that there are no major errors, and totally overlook parallelism.

I am still unsure about my topic for my WP2. I am also unsure about my thesis. I think once I finish with the rest of my paper more of it will make sense. I am having the same problem breaking up my paragraphs as before. I am so used to breaking things down based on topics, so I automatically started breaking my essay down in the intro, 3 body, and conclusion format. I am in the process of fixing that so it adds structure to my essay.

On a side note: I went home this weekend for Mother’s day and whilst I was home I was able to spend some time with my bestfriend that goes to school in Nashville. She is the coolest of the cool. She is a singer-songwriter so I made her sing me songs by the beach and I snapped a picture of her (see below) . She has a sondcloud so I suggest you give her a listen at reganrousseau! ( see I don’t hate my friends ;) )