The thlog to end all thlogs... Fo real this time!

First, because I’m excited about it, I would like to mention that I got an 89% on my history paper that I got back this week! Also, a few days later, I got my anthropology paper back and I got a 93% on that one. Now, you may be asking “How is that significant to this class at all?” but I’ll tell ya why. I noticed when I was writing those papers that I was using some of the things I’d learned in this class. In fact, I think I mentioned in a previous thlog that I used some things I’d learned when writing my anthropology paper (I think I talked about how I got a little bold and started the paper out with a quote). I know its not an A+ but I was pretty happy with those scores considering they were my first college essays outside of the WPs. I went back and re-read the anthropology paper after I got my grade and I noticed that I made a few dumb mistakes so I guess next time I need to focus a bit more on re-reading and revising… I did finish that at like 2 a.m. in the library the night before it was due though so I guess I’ll cut myself some slack.

Okay so now back to what I’ve learned this week. Well I learned how to make a Weebly, I mean I technically also learned that Weebly exists, because before I had no idea. I’m not a super techy person so I may not use it in the future but its possible that I will because it doesn’t appear to be too challenging. I’m still working on my portfolio but so far I’ve been kinda having fun with it. I decided to add applicable quotes under each of my headings of the sections and subsections and I think it looks pretty cool. Go Weebly!

So here ends my last thlog ever… Goodbye my friends. Goodbye Zack!!! Thanks for everything!

Thlog to end all thlogs (unless we have one next week or the week after)

This week was group presentation week!!! WOO HOO!

I learned a lot of cool tid bits of information from everyone’s group projects. Even when I already pretty much knew the information it was still nice to see it laid out/presented in a new and interesting way.

            I remember feeling like I got a lot out of the semicolon presentation. Before, I didn’t realize that you could use semicolons when items in a list already have commas. I know there has been at least one time when I came across that problem in my writing and didn’t know what to do. I also liked the video that the group that had hedged language and qualified claims included. Maybe if Donald Trump took some pointers about when to use hedged language he wouldn’t sound like such a giant turd all the time. (Whoops did I just show too much of a political opinion there? Hope I didn’t scare away my moderate blog readers…) :P I also learned a lot about my own group’s subject: parallelism. When we sat down together to put together our powerpoint it was pretty easy at first to just slap down the basic stuff that we already knew. It got hard when we realized we needed to make this thing last 15 minutes so we had to dig deeper than just the surface level info. It was cool once the ideas started flowing because we were all coming up with kinda out of the box ways that parallelism could be applied in writing. I think that if anything, I’ll recognize parallelism in more places now than I did before.

            Last thing I learned: Despite not liking presenting in front of people, it can be done. I survived my first college presentation, and I’m sure a lot of other kids in the class are in the same boat. GO US!

Yet another thlog

                  So this week I realized yet again that I have issues remembering to write my weekly thlogs. This realization prompted me to finally, week eight, turn on a weekly alarm to remind myself. This may have been a more helpful lesson had I learned it earlier on in this class but that’s alright: better late than never!

                  This week was also the week we turned in our WP3’s! (Woo Hoo! Done with WP’s, that’s pretty cool!) I have no idea how I did on it but it did stretch me to my limits and made me more comfortable with being pushed out of my comfort zone.

                  One cool thing I noticed this week was how much this class has actually changed my writing/writing process for the better. I had two other essays due this week (in addition to WP3), one for anthropology and one for history. When I was writing those essays I used a lot of the small writing tricks I’ve learned in this class. For example, when I was writing my history paper I included “∆∆∆∆” when I didn’t know exactly what I wanted to say so that I could easily come back to it. And for my anthropology paper I started with a quote because I remembered Zack saying that was a good way to liven up a hook (or something along those lines). Anyways, I know it’s not technically something I learned this week but I still feel like it’s significant enough to warrant mentioning. It was really cool to see the class directly helping my writing like that because this class has been really tough and a lot of work for me. It’s nice that this class is making me better at writing though, that makes it worth it… especially since I think that’s the whole point of the class.

Anyways that’s this week’s edition of Kennedy’s Thoughts! Thanks for tuning in and I’ll see you all next week.