Thlog #7

This week, we finished up with WP2 and began looking at the WP3 assignment. On Monday, we discussed how our drafts for WP2 went and focused mainly on peer reviews to prepare for our final drafts that were due on Wednesday. For the journal, we had to write down what we thought our strengths and struggles were, in addition to what specific things we thought we improved on from WP1. Student 6 wrote "I struggled with including more quotes from our readings" and student 8 said they struggled with "finding good evidence from readings to back up" their argument. I thought it was interesting that multiple students had the same issue I did, and thought it was very helpful that Zack told us to not worry so much about using exact quotes because paraphrasing also counts as evidence from the readings.

On Wednesday, we had our class online. It was an interesting experience, but I do prefer meeting in class. I thought it was harder to stay on track with the schedule this way and I found myself not timing things properly. For our journals, we wrote about our WP2s and some of the most helpful comments we received in our peer reviews on Monday. I wrote about a comment that suggested I could expand my argument by looking into how bias plays a role in the way my non-academic article was written and how that is different than the scholarly pieces I chose. This was great because it helped me add more analysis to my paper that I had not thought of before. After discussing final thoughts on WP2, we moved on to learning about WP3 and watching videos of how different artists paint and the moves they make. I thought the videos were pretty interesting to watch because each painter was so unique in both their style and what they focused on within their paintings.