Thlog #4- Movin' On Up

Well, the verdicts are in on WP-1. As soon as Zack warned us that he was gonna be a “tough” grader on this assignment, you could almost detect the collective increase of fear-sweat of every person in the room. Although he was indeed tough, I felt his comments were also fair, and more importantly, valuable in terms of helping me improve my writing. As I had mentioned in my previous thlog, I had really struggled with my thesis, but now I feel like I have a better grasp of what it needs sound like. Moving on, the most interesting activity of the week for me was the group murder activity we did in class (now that I’m thinking about it, this would sound really odd to someone who had no context). My group and I had to basically put ourselves in the shoes of the person we were supposed to be writing as-- in our case, we were tenants who used the parking garage where the murder of poor Mark Smith occurred-- and figure out what that person would be thinking/feeling in that situation, as well as what audience we were writing to. This was pretty helpful for our understanding of how we use rhetoric differently depending on the audience, genre, and circumstance. The next big thing we talked about this week was “moves.” When Zack first introduced this subject, I immediately got the mental image of a guy doing the classic ‘yawn-and-stretch’ move to get his arm around a girl. I really liked the activity where everyone had to find an online article that involved the word “Move(s)” in the title. It was cool seeing the plethora of things people found, I thought it was really a testament to the variability of a move, and how pretty much anything can be a move. 

 Anyways, I wanted to put a cool song here with the word “moves” in it but I was having difficulty finding one that wasn’t basic (*cough* “Moves Like Jagger”), so here is a short little tune by a cool guy named Mississippi Fred McDowell, hope you like it.