This class is interesting because finally we—the students— have an opportunity to write about something that really interests us. The thing that matters is how we write, not what we write about. However, it has been harder than I would’ve thought to come up with topics that make me want to write.
For my whole life I’ve been taught, like many others, to write a thesis with three points and then make a body paragraph for each of those points. All of my essays have been about books or articles or any school-related thing that I probably did not choose to do. The essay formula is engrained in my head and I have always viewed it as anything but creative. But now, we have the liberty of searching the internet and searching the world even for any genre that we like.
The activity we did on Monday where we came up with possible WP2 topics helped open my mind a lot to more topics that are out there. For example, I never would have thought of LSD effects. However, this could be a really interesting article because different fields would approach it in drastically different ways. More different than let’s say, sociology and communism would approach any given topic.
Topics such as these interest me, but I would not normally think of them because I feel as though I’ve been trained in a certain way to only see academic topics as worthy of writing essays about. For my WP1, I liked the topic I chose a lot (billboards), even though there was not a lot of text to work with. I think the absence of text is just as important as the presence of text, which I should have elaborated on more. For my WP2, I will probably try to pick a topic that is just as interesting, but has more substance to work with.
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