Thlog Week 4

              This week’s PB was actually much more enjoyable to work on, because the article I found online was really interesting. I wrote about stress on college students and how that affects their drug use and personality, so this article really related to me as a college student.  I found it informative and educating, as I learned more about a topic that many of my peers would experience throughout the years. Writing the PB was not too bad, but I did struggle on comparing and contrasting the rhetorical features of the scholarly article and the generator. Although I feel I am well-informed so far with certain topics concerning rhetorics, identifying rhetorical situations and exigence are topics I continually have to review. 

              So far, I am really appreciating all the work we do in class to prepare for the project builders and writing projects. It really helps when we do in-class activities, like the “Murder! Rhetorically” activity, because it elaborates in detail on ideas we have to write about. This specific reading really intrigued me, because it talked and explained one topic- writing with concern for the audience- and explained this in multiple examples, even referring to students’ works. The follow-up activity was fun, because we got to relate the readings into writings we worked on to see how everything connected. And it was interesting to see how this all links back to our everyday real life situations. I also enjoyed the "Moves" activity and all the videos we referred to. 

            The most intriguing aspect of this class that I started to really notice this week is how interactive it is. Although a lot of the work is done independently, the constant interactions done in class opens up questions that I would have never asked and those questions clarify topics that I find confusing. Overall, the in-class work allows me to fully comprehend topics that I struggled to understand.