Week 4 has come and gone really
quickly. For this past week, there were many little things that I found
especially helpful. One part I really liked was looking at writing and
dissecting it, like dissecting a pig. By grabbing a paragraph, we looked for
the most important parts of it. Writing basically came down to higher order
issues (thesis, evidence, and analysis) and lower order issues (grammar,
spelling, and sentences). These two might seem totally different but there are
many things in between like tone, flow, and structure. Writing is made up of
many things but these are just a few that came off the top of my head.
Dissecting is a process much like writing. Another fun activity from last week
was the “Murder!” rhetoric activity. In groups, we took on the role of police
officers, coroners, and tenants. We assembled stories and pieces by identifying
the conventions and genres that came along. We saw how something simple as word
choice impacted who we thought wrote the piece. None of us may have been
coroners or police officers but we still knew what a police report or a news
report looked like. That is because of genre conventions and our growth of
using and identifying them.
While it may not seem as much, we
actually learned a whole lot of stuff through simple things. I can’t wait to
see what’s next in class.
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