Thlog 5

The quarter is officially HALFWAY over! Although during classes it feels like it drags on forever, looking back at the past 5 weeks it has really flew by. The main focus of this weeks classes was definitely ‘MOVES’. Although it was really confusing in the beginning, I feel like I am starting to finally understand it a little bit more. What really helped me understand moves was watching the video of The Rocks ‘Peoples Elbow”. It helped me see that the move is not only the body slamming but also everything leading up to it as well, such as the running back and for the and taunting. Like all moves, the peoples elbow itself is made up from many parts that come together.

In preparation for writing project 2 we also did an activity on academic disciplines that related back to genres. Everyone in class got a topic and 2 disciplines of their choice and wrote a basic thesis that someone studying that discipline would research about. While doing this activity it reminded me of the Mark Smith murder activity about genres we did a few classes back. These two activities both framed a certain topic to get its purpose across. They both also reminded me of a type of bias I learned last year in social psychology called confirmation bias. By only looking for information in your area of study, or only one specific news station, you may only get part of the information.

This week’s reading was Mike Bunn’s “Reading like a Writer”, and although his concept was hard as hell for me to grasp at first, I casually started doing it at the most random times and with the most random things. For instance, I went to “Chick-fil-A” with Edwin this past week and when I disgustingly took a bite of a pickle, I started asking why the hell the creator would decide to add pickles of all things to chicken. I then began telling Edwin everything else he could have and should have added instead and how he probably chose pickles because it would be the cheapest and add the most flavor with the smallest amount. Edwin then replied that instead of reading like a writer, I was eating like a Chef!