Thlog week9

WP3 is definitely the most important item in Week 9’s agenda. During this week, we survived the last Writing Project this quarter (Congratulations!) WP3 is a fun project but also a demanding one. To transform an academic paper to something else is a literature experience I never had before. Therefore, when I worked on WP3, I proceeded with uncertainty and anxiety. Fortunately, we were provided opportunities in classes to share and discuss our questions with other team members. It is always better to solve questions together than doing yourself alone.

I enjoyed writing WP3. I composed two genres I never touched: instructional article and meeting agenda. The most difficult part of writing them was that you did not know where to start and what to writing. For example, I attempted to writing to an interesting opening for my instructional article, however, the more interesting you wanted it to be, the less it became. I found that mechanical imitation won’t work because each piece features its own author’s writing style. Forcibly adjusting my style to fit others’ is not an effective way to produce a good work. Therefore, I changed my strategy. Instead of studying how a specific piece was written, I re-placed my focus to conventions and audience. Through considering what conventions of an instructional article are, what its intended audience are, and what moves I can make to persuade them, I found where to start and expand my thoughts and writings.

Peer-review workshop is another source I got help from. Sometimes flaws of an article are concealed from the author’s eyes, whereas they are easily exposed under reader’s examination. In peer-review workshop, my team members gave me a lot of constructive and insightful advices to me that really reduced my work on revision. Polishing writings is an endless work—your writings can always be better—and we don’t need to bear this task alone all the time. Asking for advises from your classmates is a good way to make it easier for you (you gain efficiency).