Sometimes I hate writing and seriously struggle with it, because I'm not good at the whole transferring thoughts onto paper thing. Sometimes though, (usually once a year like Halloween or Christmas lol) I like writing and I totally get it. This was week was one of those weeks. I liked that we did the whole moves activity and incorporated it more into PB's. I always notice when I use the same kind of words/phrases when I'm writing and I never knew it had a name. Now whenever I write anything I'm just like oh yeah total Jas move.
Alsoooooo. Totally didn't like 'learn' it but it comes up in class occasionally. I've been structuring my writing differently and trying to not clump it all together. Reading other people's writing I notice how big of a difference structure makes. If its a shit load of paragraphs or info all clumped in one giant paragraph...I don't wanna read it. However, those dainty paragraphs with sprinkles of meaty paragraphs pieces of writing I'll gladly read over.
I like that Zack (despite the whole 'be resourceful' thing) tells us tips and tricks in class. The brackets one? Definitely didn't know you could use them in quotes to make sense of it to the reader. I honestly thought they were just for if you put stuff in parentheses that already has parentheses. I think that'll be an effective tool for me to use and help slim down my paragraphs a lot.
The most important thing I think we're learning though is the audience bit. I'm starting to think that mainly everything you do when writing anything is for the reader or your audience. You use quotes, or explain things, or structure lists in bullet form instead of sentence form all. So many different things you do when you're writing and it's all really to help the reader better understand and read your writing. The audience really sets the whole paper from the tone or font to the information you're putting in it. Knowing who you're writing for will give you the basis of an idea of how to start writing. I think overall this will help me better any kind of writing I do from here on out.
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