Thlog week 7

Once again, we had a very happy one-writing-class week (only because we can spend more time on WP2). Although the time of our class is halved, the amount of work awaiting us there is not (what we have done is only WP2 draft). During the only class this week, we still had some fun activities and the useful peer review workshop, which really helped me revise and improve my WP2. So, as usual, according to my own experience, let’s talk about them.

The mind map is very interesting. I remember I went over this concept in my World Music class last year, so I know to draw the idea out of our mind is a very useful approach to assist our writing. However, sometimes, I would rather to write an outline than to draw a mind map. I think, outline and mind map, to some extent, are equivalent to each other. They both do the same thing, so choosing which one is totally up to people’s preference. I am not good at drawing, so sketching an outline before starting to write seems to be a more viable plan for me.

Socrative. Com is a great website, and so is the comparing opening sentence activity. I have to admit that I was happy to see that some anonymous classmates liked mine (despite it was not one of the most favorite ones). By discussing the top two opening sentences, I found that using a question is a good strategy to grab the audience’s attention. Also, I found a common feature between these two articles was that they both attempted to resonate with the audience. Through interacting with the audience by questioning or using second personal language, they became more persuasive.

At last, I very appreciated peer review workshop. So helpful that I do not need to find where to start the revision by myself. My group member gave me the message. After all, a reader is more qualified than the author himself to evaluate the work. Through their eyes, I saw flaws of my paper, which would be very likely to be ignored by myself. WP2 is due next Monday, so good luck everyone.