Thlog#7

Coming out of WP2 I had a lot of trouble feeling like what I had written was adequate enough. For some reason I felt like I had to answer every single question that was presented in the prompt and because of that I spent a lot of time talking briefly about a lot of things instead of talking more in depth about fewer of them. I kind of liked how we were told to choose a non-academic piece of writing to compare/contrast with our scholarly articles because I think it really helped me find some of the important conventions in a scholarly article. I think that because I knew my third article was a ‘non-scholarly’ article I formed a bias against it and didn’t do as good of a job identifying conventions in the piece just because I had already formed this opinion of it in my mind. I also find a lot of the activities we do leading up to us turning in our papers (things like turning our paper into a poem, the highlighter activity we did during WP1) are super helpful but I sometimes wish we practiced using them earlier on because usually we are learning these techniques right before we have to turn in our papers. Our online class on Wednesday was a little stressful for me because I felt like I was never at the right place at the right time and also because that’s when we got our introduction to WP3. I’m still slightly confused about what exactly we’re supposed to be doing for WP3. I have a hard time focusing on one idea at a time so I feel like I might have difficulty coming up with a plan for WP3 since we’re supposed to be transforming a piece of writing for different audiences.