Thlog week 4

As usual, we had very cool and fun activities in this week’s class. The main focus of this week's activities revolved around WP1, and I learnt a lot from them about how to revise paper.

I really like highlight activity. We were asked to highlight different part of our paper in different colors. By separating different part visually, we could see a clear pattern of how we analyzing. Main idea of each paragraph is supported by multiple evidences. Then following every evidence are analyses. Mr. Zack said words “analysis” was originated from a Greek word meaning “loosen”. It is very interesting concept implying us that to analysis means to rip up open and see what is inside. Although I still have not thoroughly understood what exactly does analysis mean, I think the word “loosen” at least gives me some hints about how to make good analyses. Anyway, learning how to efficiently analyze takes time and effort and we keep writing and analyzing things to hone our analytical skills every day. During highlight activity, I also realized that I should put each main argument  to the very beginning of each paragraph so that the reader can readily follow the flow of my mind. Otherwise, the reader will easily get bored and confused about what I am arguing about.

Another activity I really enjoyed is poemifying our paper. Simply, we just press enter after each period, then we got a poem-formatted paper. Such activity taught me the importance of the sentence length. Only writing long and exhausting sentences makes reading very dull and difficult. Only writing short and quick sentences cannot precisely express writer’s thoughts and discourages the reader with a feeling of discontinuity. A monotonous pattern of sentence length is definitely a bad thing we should avoid. Using a good combination of both long and short sentence can make our paper more interesting.