Thlog#3

This past week in class the main focus was working on our WP1. Coming into class on Wednesday I was a little uncertain about my paper and my topic. I found that I had so much difficulty finding a topic I liked/could write a lot about that by the time I finally settled on a topic I had put myself in a difficult time crunch where I felt like all of my writing was rushed. I worried a lot while I was writing that I would miss important points or conventions because I felt rushed frantic. Honestly, seeing that other people were having similar struggles as me when we discussed it in class made me feel somewhat relieved. Since my topic is news reports, more specifically ones involving the wrongful/accidental killing of a person of color. I worried while writing it that my own bias would overshadow a lot of the subtle differences that were being displayed in each of the individual news sources. In class on Wednesday, I found it helpful to talk to other people about my paper and have them read it. I also liked the idea that when we read each others papers we weren’t ‘editing’ we were instead told to ask questions that could either help clarify/point out an area where details, description, or analysis were lacking. Even though the group reading of each other’s WP1 was helpful, I still worry that I am not doing the assignment correctly.