Thlog Week 9

Thlog Week 9

            T-minus one week until we are done with the quarter…Or at least with classes (we still have lovely final exams). These 8 weeks have flown by and I am honestly surprised as to how much we have learned in such a short amount of time. I feel as though the next week will be the most productive and developing week for my writing thus far. The portfolio I will be working on throughout these last days of writing is an assignment that I have thought a lot about. This is the first assignment that, as a student, I am given an opportunity to redeem myself as a writer. De Piero’s immense amount of feedback with WP1 and WP2 has allowed me to take a closer look at my many weaknesses and strengths. I am starting to work on this portfolio a little bit earlier than I thought, so I can feel like I have enough time to read, and reread, and reread the WPs and focus on the various ways to develop my analyses. My WPs that I submitted as a final has turned into my, “shitty first draft.” On top of Zack’s comments, I will also look back at my peer’s comments and see how I can additionally advance my paper.

             Also, I am super into the Portfolio Week Google Doc’a’thon. This will allow me as a writer to get help from several of my peers with an issue I have been struggling with. It’s also a plus to see other people’s questions. It likely some things others are struggling with is something I may be. I am looking forward to enhance and improve my writing through suggestions from other writers like myself.

            The PowerPoint presentations we had today have also introduced me to mistakes I have made in my previous papers. For example, I should start focusing on parallelism. Have a grammatical incorrectly sentence is very annoying to reader (see?). Also, I think I am going to start incorporating more semi-colons in my sentences to develop a more diverse amount of sentence structures. I will also start focusing on my hedged language. I think if I go through my essays and change non-hedge language to hedge it will create credibility and professionalism with my audience.

            Overall, as we are getting closer to completing this writing course, I feel pretty accomplished and proud with my progress. I am also ready to complete a fabulous portfolio!