Thlog #2

This week we worked a lot on preparing for our first Writing Project. Our journal on Monday was all about what we learned while writing our PB1A and how we went about doing it. I thought it was very interesting that student 18 wrote that they learned "it's much easier to write when you put a creative spin on things." This student said that they basically followed the pattern of using first order thinking to get things started, which made the process less dry and easier to get done, and then they moved on to second order thinking when they revised their work. Through most of my schooling I have been so worried about writing well and getting good grades that I never really thought about it being fun. However, I agree with student 18 in that I actually did enjoy writing this time, mainly because I chose a topic that I was interested in for my PB1A. It took me a while to decide which genre to write about, but as soon as I got started it became a lot easier than I was expecting it to be.

I had a bit of a harder time writing my PB1B because the genres we looked at were not ones that I was already too familiar with. It took a while for me to come up with some conventions for each genre generator, and I know I wasn't nearly as specific as I was in my PB1A. I was able to think of more conventions that had to do with the organization of these genres, rather than the content of them. I also found it difficult to write about the possible purposes of each convention in the grand scheme of the genre and what they provide for the audience. I'm usually not very good at analyzing things and coming up with potential reasons for certain choices, but I am hoping that through the rest of this class I can gain the skills needed to improve at it.