thlog 4/7/16

4/7/16

In class on Monday, I liked the journal entry that we did because everyone got to take a step back from their PBs and see what their thought process was like through the whole thing. I thought this was interesting and found in the journal entries that many people really took the class reading about first and second order thinking to heart.

Person 2 described an important part of their writing process as finding something to write about that they found interesting, even if this strayed from the traditional examples or the examples given in class. I would consider this first order thinking because there is no pressure at all to write or produce anything, you are just simply thinking about what topics interest you. I related to this because I found my topic of billboards interesting as well.

I’ve seen billboards my whole life, but I’ve never stopped to consider what components make a billboard a billboard, although it seems so obvious. When I took time to just brainstorm and think about the components of billboards and their function, their rhetorical devices became clear. It was very helpful for me to practice first order thinking when starting this assignment. If I had not done this, it would have probably been a lot more difficult to start my paper and get ahold of my ideas.

Like most other people mentioned in the journal, after I brainstormed topics and just let my thoughts flow, I then started to organize my ideas and create an outline. It seemed that this exact process helped a lot of others in the class through the assignment. It was interesting to read something for class that actually had helpful tips for how to think and conquer a paper, rather than just reading something for content that relates to class material, like I do for other classes.