Thlog #3

This week we only met once, and with the due date of WP #1 quickly approaching, it has gained extreme prevalence both in class and out of class as homework. I thought that the activity we did prior to full peer edits where each of us posted our introduction paragraphs into a google doc and they were somewhat “dissected” was largely helpful. While it is helpful to the person who’s paper you are editing to hear feedback, it can also be useful as a reader to extract the “best parts” of that person’s paper, figure out what makes them the best parts, and perhaps utilize some of these techniques within your own writing. I realized while peer editing a paper on Wednesday, that the way the writer’s paper was set up was much more clear than my own. It was a matter of placement of ideas that added a particular “flow” to the paper as a whole. Also in the midst of peer editing I learned about a pretty nifty tool that Microsoft word has that I had no idea existed before. It came up while my peer editing group was discussing citations, particularly in text citations, and the correct way to format them. A member of my group was kind enough to share the built-in citations took that word comes with which allows you to simply click a button and it will pop the citation, properly formatted (in the style of your choice) right in. Not that everything else I learned through class isn’t cool and important—but that was sort of life changing.