Thlog #7 - Veterans Day

This week we only had one day of class, because of Veterans Day. It feels kind of weird only going to Writing one day out of the week. Class this week was mainly geared towards WP3 and ways to work with it. I really thought the PB (even though we technically didn't do it IN class) was the best part of W2 this week. It allowed everyone to see how their classmates minds really work and kind of let us in on each others writing process. I noticed a lot of creativity from people and it made me want to think bigger and bolder. Aside from that though it almost made us outline our projects and I learned from a previous paper that outlines are there to help you not hurt you. I didn't think the comic book reading really had any relevance to WP3 or writing in general until we started talking about WP3 in class. The concepts presented in that reading correlate to WP3 because how the author told readers to write comics is how we should be thinking when we write our two genres. How can we format this, and come at it from different angles while using certain words and even images to get our reader to better understand what we're doing. It was a lengthy reading though nonetheless. I also think it was beneficial and important for Zack to show us examples he liked of previous student work. I think most of us (including myself) were a tad bit confused on WHAT exactly we were supposed to be producing for this assignment but that cleared it up. When I'm given projects I like seeing previous examples that way I have an idea of what criteria is expected of me. Sometimes prompts or explanations on paper are just not enough.