Thlog Six

In week 6 of Writing 2, I enhanced my understanding of Writing Project 2. I have realized the importance of using different verbs in relation to the word “says”. These use of verbs such as ponders, argues, contradicts, questions, challenges, etc. can enhance a writers’ statement. Then we continued to learn about non-hedged claims and hedged claims, which I found extremely vital especially for my WP2. I have learnt not to make specific claims and “over-generalize,” statements in my papers as not everyone is the same. When we read the Style Chapter in the course reader, I really learnt the difference between connotation and denotation. As Zack said, “DEnotation for DEFINITION, and Connotation for the other.” Lastly, I realized what non-academic sources were which is needed for WP2. These sources consist of Cosmopolitan, Yahoo, Nexus, etc.

            On Wednesday, the journal question was “are there differences between conventions and moves.” I stated that conventions are popular aspects that are used between a specific genre, where as moves are an aspect that an author chooses to use, aimed more towards the audience to make them understand better. However, student ID#11 thought conventions and moves, for the most part, were the same as they are both strategies used by writers for specific reasons. This answer is questionable, and should be further analyzed. On another note, parallelism was extremely interesting to learn and will definitely use this in my writing 2.  I have realized that sometimes I do write sentences with a lot of commas that makes no sense. Therefore, using parallelism can definitely help Zack understand my writing more. Lastly when we looked at the two sample WP2’s; it was extremely beneficial for me as I got to understand the importance of structure. I especially liked Chief’s Freshmen 15 essay.