Thlog W3

This week was mainly about focusing how to prepare for our writing project 1 and getting feedback on them. The first reading of this week was very useful because it gave me a different perspective to write in to focus more having a stronger essay that a reader could easily understand and get my message through to them. It also made me start thinking about how I should write certain sentences and make them have a stronger effect.

In our first lecture we went over some great writing tips—how to use hyphens and dashes—which was very helpful because I had completely forgotten about how dashes could be in English and I learned how to correctly use hyphens for the first time in my life. This lecture was also very useful because I was a bit confused when doing the assignment that was due the previous Wednesday, but in class seeing all the other examples really helped clarify how we were supposed to do them and it also cleared up the little confusion I had with our first draft of the writing project.

While reading the second assigned reading of the week, I felt like I already knew most the things being said, like I had something very similar back in high school, although it was a good refresher to remember to ask question instead of pointing out what was wrong, even though you should still do that—positive criticism is the way to go.

Now our final lecture of the was, in my opinion, the most important one since I let my fellow writers read my essay. I knew it wasn’t great, but they pointed out somethings I never noticed, like how I rarely wrote about the conventions I mentioned at the beginning, so I had to change those and make my argument clearer. These were the most important things I got from that lecture and they were really helpful.