4 Thlog #

            This week we began learning moves, which will later help us write our WP2. At first I’ll admit having a difficult time answering why these moves were important (maybe because I was hoping we were going to learn about basketball or football moves) but then I did realize that the moves of basketball players might not be THAT much more different than a writer. Essentially, both the basketball player and writer have similar goals in being effective at their respective discipline and so they need to use moves that will help them accomplish this. So as weird as it sounds to say of a writer… a writer too has moves and can be as simple as their word choice and syntax or as complicated as trying to set a certain tone from a paragraph that sets it apart from the others.

            A really cool activity that helped me understand just how easily one can find moves was watching The Rock’s signature move over and over again until the class got so detailed that we realized even the Rock pushing his opponents arm in before he absolutely destroys him (His opponent’s RIGHT arm) was an important move to note in the effectiveness of his overall signature move.

            Overall, this class has continued to help me become a better writer and have enjoyed this routine we have going inside the classroom with the free writes and class discussions.

P.S. I also learned how to use italics more effectively but I just decided to incorporate that in the first paragraph rather than to talk about it.