First week of Writing 2

My first week of Writing2 was filled with a lot of information.

I learned about a couple different things about writing. I learned about the different levels of writing, such as first order and second order. I also learned about genres and the general conventions of certain writings. To explain a little bit more about the different orders of writing, I'll give some examples of first order and second order. First order writing is the creative and stream of thought subjects, such as when you forget to write that speech you were supposed to give in front of the whole class, and have to do it all ad lib. However second order writing is a lot more refined and relevant to the subject, which happens when you actually complete a rough draft to your speech and revise it multiple times before standing up behind the lectern. Genres are kind of like different species of writing; sometimes they share similar key body parts (conventions) like how cats and monkeys both have legs, however have unique elements like the monkey have thumbs. To give a more literal example, country music and country pop music both have very similar conventions, such as their country twang, however they are different genres because of the speed and tempo of the songs. Country music vs country pop.

That is basically everything I learned this week.