Thlog #8

This has, without a doubt, not been the easiest week of this quarter or school year. Going into the week, I knew it was going to be a long one. Monday held two midterms and a paper due, and following the completion of my second midterm I was feeling rather overwhelmed. Despite the syllabus for the class saying something along the lines of “I would rather you come to class then not, regardless of not being prepared,” I felt like the level of contribution I would be able to add to class would be very minimal, and thus it was perhaps better to miss that day. Because of that situation, this was another short week in writing 2 for me.

I’m not sure if it was because I was not in class on Monday, but I felt generally confused during the “preview,” per say, of WP3. I know I have the prompt perfectly accessible to me, and that we looked at several examples in class, but I still don’t feel like I’m 100% clear on the assignment. I’m hoping that it’s the type of assignment where clarity arises once you really get into it, which I’m confident that it will be. The thing that threw me off the most, as I believe was true with the rest of the class, was the transition from being able to pick any sort of scholarly article or literature to only those available to pick from (all about writing). I guess I understand that writing, and the aspects of writing that are discussed within each of these scholarly articles, is present all around us, I’m just having a bit of trouble seeing it. Then again, the tools that we have focused on in class (such as framing, as we learned about this week) are probably the tools that I need to use in order to find instances of these applications.