Thlog 5

This week I found it really interesting that it was so easy to find connections between the They Say, I Say appendix and our course readings. When I was reading the prompt I was terrified because I was thinking that it would take me hours just to find five connections between the two. I guess this just really taught me that what Zack was saying about moves is real. I guess this also showed that I initially thought of moves as more epic, unique moves rather than generic, common moves that can be seen in a lot of writing.

I also believe that How to Read Like a Writer counts for this week and that was a pretty cool reading. I have always really loved to read (like seriously just being in a library/bookstore makes me ungodly happy), so it was refreshing to hear that reading can actually help improve my writing. If you think about it, its almost common sense that reading writing helps you write better but I think reading that course reading helped really solidify it in our brains.

             This class overall has opened my eyes to a bunch of things that were beneath the surface of writing that I hadn't thought of before. There is a lot that goes into writing papers in college that I didn't consider in high school. I feel that this class has showed me more about the processes that contribute to writing than four years of writing classes in high school did.