Week 5 Thogg

This week in class we really started to dive in to writing project 2. To do this we had to begin to understand what a move is in terms of writing. So far what I’ve been able to gather is that a move is a choice an author makes in terms of style or word choice in order to get a certain effect on the reader or to get a certain point across. The more we keep diving in to this the more I’m actually starting to like the idea of WP2 versus any of our other writing so far. It is very interesting to me to not only look at what an author did, but why in the world they decided to do some of the techniques they do. By analyzing this I am gaining a deeper understanding of what goes in to a big piece of writing as well as learning what I can include in my own pieces. The use of italics is very interesting as it can serve to do more than just show a strange word but call attention to details as well. In our journals this week we focused on the comments that Zach left us and which ones we found to be the most helpful. His comment of breaking up paragraphs (mentioned by person 16) and avoiding the use of the word “things” (mentioned by person 15) has led me to try to apply that to my own writing although I was not given these corrections. It is for the benefit of the reader to break up large pieces of text so that it can be more easily read and by avoiding the word things there is more clarity within the writing. Both of these can significantly improve writing and as that is the purpose of this class I will strive to do those things as well.