Thlog 4

In the week 4, we mainly discussed the WP1 and made some modifications for it.

On Monday’s class, I learned a new way to modify essays, which is to draw out the thesis statement of essay, main idea of each paragraph, support evidences and examples in each part. After pointing these important factors of an essay, we can easily find that what lacks in each part of essay. For instance, after highlighting these features, if I find that I write few support ideas and examples in the first part of essay, I can add more examples in that part. Comparing to reading whole essay and finding drawbacks, this highlighting method is much easier and more efficient. Thus, it is my pleasure to learn such a perfect way to modify essays. In addition, I also found that list outlines is the most important part before writing essay. First outlines can record one’s thesis statement, main ideas and evidences for an essay, we will not forget what we are thinking in the process of writing. Also, after writing essay, we can modify essay according to its outline.

The other important thing in week 4 is we slowed down progress of class. To be honest, I think it is a good idea to slow down when we modify essay. Since we always can find many writing problems in the process of modifying essay.

What’s more, we had a murder activity in the class. We are asked to write some materials, which also have genres, about the murder event, such as the police report of the murder, the letter people write to the manager of garage and eulogy to the victim. Through this activity, we can find that genres, which we mainly discussed in the past weeks, are everywhere in life.

Whatever, I am glad to finish my WP1 and happy for the changes in syllabus.