WP1 was due this week.

WP1 was due this week and that was almost a disaster for me. At first I totally misunderstood the prompt and so I basically rewrote my whole essay. I guess it was indirectly a good thing because if I didn't find out I would have a much more worse paper than I submitted. From writing the paper I actually learned some things for myself there, especially about genre. I know my last thlog I said I learned about genre, but I swear I learned even more about it this week from frantically researching what to write about. What finally clicked with me is that genre is even broader than I thought before, practically everything you see is part of some genre. The blog you are reading this on is a genre; if you think about it hard enough, your clothing “style” is a genre-- granted it’s not literary-- but close enough. Most of our learning this week has been from our papers that we did.

All of my lessons this week were aimed at me becoming a better writer, which would be a miracle in itself. I realized that I need to use a lot more evidence in my papers to construct an actual defense of my argument, otherwise it wouldn't be much of an argument. The last thing I learned is that flow of writing comes with how comfortable with and how much you actually understand what you're talking about, so if you don’t know what you’re talking about, you’re going to have a really tough time trying to get your paper to flow well.

Oh if you're ever feeling down: Be yourself