This is the week where we had to
turn in our first draft of our WP1.
Reading the prompt was kind of intimidating, but once I chose my
sources, topic, and genre writing the paper was kind of a breeze. Writing about sports articles, the genre I
chose, was not too bad because I enjoy watching and being a fan of sports. The process of writing my paper included
writing my thesis, making an outline of random ideas that came to my head, and
then actually putting those thoughts onto paper and writing the actual essay. The part I had most trouble on was coming up
with a good introductory paragraph.
Usually I go in order and start off with an introduction, but this time
I did it last because I thought of my thesis first, and wanted to continue
writing my thoughts from there.
In class, we broke up into groups
of three and edited each others’ essays.
I liked the idea of going over the other students intro and thesis first
through Google Docs because that is the most important part of an essay in my
opinion, and it allowed us to see what the main argument was going to be. Speaking of arguments, I feel like it was
very helpful reading the intros of the two essays at the start of class. Doing thesis related exercises like these
helped me understand better how to develop a good thesis that has an opinion
that can be argued against.
The reading about editing papers
helped guide me through the peer editing of my group members. I tried to pull out the main argument and the
big picture of each essay. Instead of
editing each detail, I wrote down statements on how to make the essay into a
better piece of writing. And of course,
the comments I saw on my paper will help me greatly for the final draft of WP1.
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