Thlog#4

I found the exercises we did in class on Monday to help us with the final edits on our papers were really helpful. I thought that the highlighting activity really helped me distinguish the areas where I was either lacking in detail/evidence or didn’t make a clear argument and although I’d read through my paper a bunch of times I think I just got lost in the jumble and all the words and sentences that I wasn’t able to see these things until we did the exercise in class. I also found it really helpful to read someone else’s paper/have someone read mine. I felt like since I had spent so much time writing and editing the paper that I was overlooking a lot of mistakes and discrepancies. I also found it really interesting to see what other students had decided to do with the assignment.  I thought the Murder assignment in class on Wednesday was really interesting I thought it really helped show the difference in conventions and rhetoric used depending on what perspective we were writing from whether it was a Facebook post from a friend, or a letter from the dead person’s family. Each group’s answers were so distinctively different that it helped bring to light the vast differences in conventions for each of the individual groups despite the fact that we were all talking about the same subject.