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!