Thlogging

WP2 was due this week and I have never been so confused in my life. But at the same time I realized that I learned a lot about moves—yet again. This time however It was different. This time I finally understand how moves can impact the writing and emphasize their own unique style, which in this case is their discipline under which they study. In our projects we were tasked with comparing two different disciplines and a news source and discover the similarities and differences between them. I discovered that when you look very closely at two disciplines they differ in the fundamental way that they interpret their data. The reason this is important is because it relates to their style. And one’s style is solely based upon a collection of moves that they make commonly. In Cumming’s paper I commented on his analysis of his data and how it was tailored to his practiced discipline (following the regular conventions of the discipline wink-wink). Finally we saw how everything meshed together into one big new style of writing, the news source I identified. This news source borrowed conventions from the scholarly article from Cumming’s research while salting the potato with their own. This is what makes up news article’s genre. Even though they all cover the same topic, they all have different approaches and audience that ultimately affect their conventions, moves, and motives.

By the way, the song of the week will be known for centuries.