Thlog #7

            On Wednesday’s class, I thought it was pretty funny when Zack brought up “attacking the page”. This is something I’ve been doing since high school, and it’s nice to hear that it’s not just me who does this. Makes me feel a little bit saner. When I do this though, I never think of it as “attacking the page”. It’s just me releasing some stress through hitting the keyboard. So I don’t actually type “fighting words”, just random letters that my fingers encounter, for instance, “safhsdfhsdahfd”. Sometimes you just gotta let some steam out, which I had to do for my WP2. Also, it’s good exercise for my fingers.

            During the socrative.com activity, it was nice to get a glimpse of how others opened with their paper. I noticed that many of their hooks started out using the topic of their chosen sources. For my WP2, my hook talked about the actual prompt of the paper, which involves the rhetorical features of my chosen texts. I feel like I totally disregarded my topic of K-pop and didn’t incorporate it enough on my paper. Writing was not as fun because my paper hardly talked about K-pop. I also feel like my topic didn’t leave a mark on my readers which I wanted. Since the prompt of the paper was about the writers’ writing, I wasn’t too sure how much of K-pop I should include or if any. I tried to read my sources as a writer so my mind kinda left out the content of the sources. I guess it’s up to me to find a good balance for that. And it does make sense to make the hook about the topic since I’ll talk about the prompt later anyways. I need something to connect to my thesis and using the prompt as the hook would be redundant.