Wow! What an experience my first online class was. Obviously, google wasn't as prepared as we were and couldn't handle all of us editing one google doc and chatting live together. Inevitably, people were confused(as was I) and technology did not function perfectly and as wanted. Despite that, I learned a lot laying in my bed on Wednesday, and was quite content with not having to bike to class.
I found the Disney video featuring the different artists painting the same tree extremely interesting. It showed a lot about how you can take one thing and make your own individual and specific moves to create your own argument or in this case painting. I like how Chad, in his response to the same video, commented almost exclusively on lines and how each artist described what types of lines he was making. This could be compared to moves as each artist uses different lines to paint their picture of the tree. For example, the architectural painting used very straight and simple lines while the painter who used charcoal focused on making the tree three-dimensional which included curvaceous and dynamic lines.
Looking back to the How to Read like a Writer reading after completing my WP2, I think the reading helped my writing process immensely. While constructing my thesis and topic sentences, I tried to use moves such as parallelism to spell out the main ideas to my reader. I also think that re-reading my own paper as a writer made it easier to re-organize the structure. In one of my preliminary drafts the paragraphs didn't flow together correctly and by taking whole paragraphs out and playing around with the order, I finally came across an order that worked. I also tried to make specific points that would stand out to the reader just like the reading stated writers do, I'm not sure if it worked but I sure did try.
My one problem with WP2 was that the assignment description almost gave me too many ideas to write about. I did have trouble finding one central argument that would be the silver lining to all my evidence and analysis but in the end I had trouble trying to include as much information as I could while "keeping it under the same roof" or stringing one main argument that makes the work cohesive. For my final draft I will definitely be looking into making my argument more cohesive and will take Zack's excellent and thought-provoking comments to heart to truly step the work up at least one more notch.
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