Thlog Five

On this fifth week in Writing 2, I especially learnt my weaknesses in writing from Zack’s comments on my Writing Project #1. My difficulties included the structure of organization, and directness of my main argument. To overcome these, I may look into restructuring my paper into three main ideas instead of analyzing three sources, as well as maintain precision of my main points in my argument. I believe this advice will help me for the next two writing projects. Student ID 14 also had noted they had troubles with structuring, and that they also think reverse outlining would be beneficial for their paper, which I believe I need to do too. Nevertheless, I am still very happy with my mark for WP1, and aim to improve further. I also learnt about italics and its use for emphasizing language, titles, and foreign language. We then moved on and realized ‘happiness’ has many different conceptual definitions. One student said, “A certain “thing” that happens AFTER an event (implies a stimulus/response, cause/effect… experimental conditions)” whereas I defined it as a positive sense of emotional self, physical self, mental self, and social self. We are able to recognize two completely different definitions for one concept. We then continued to memorize the structure of most empirical “scholarly” research articles through the letters IMRAD– Introduction, Method, Results, Analysis, and Discussion. These papers are structured this way especially for readers so the orderly process of the conducted research is clearly understood. The reading due on Wednesday, ‘How to write like a reader’ was an extremely interesting read. Overall, Mike Bunn explains the importance of understanding that writing consists of series of choices, which helps us recognize the decisions of words and techniques we might want to use in our own writing. This was definitely the most interesting read out of all readings. Unfortunately I was unable to attend Wednesdays lesson due to the Big West Conference for tennis.