It seemed like the comments that helped people most with understanding where they ran into issues during their WP2s were about the discrepancy between how a writer reads something and how the reader interprets that same thing. I think it is extremely important to read like a writer when reading texts, in order to gain techniques that will help with rhetoric. However, I think it is just as important to write like a reader in some cases. Stepping into the shoes of the reader definitely would have helped me, and possibly some of my classmates, who said things like, "I learned that even if my organization made sense to me, it does not necessarily make sense to the reader." If I had put on a different lens to read my WP2, I could have possibly seen that the organization would not make sense to someone on the outside of my paper.
Overall, I think I did well on WP2, and I'm proud of my work. I improved a little from WP1, which shows progress in my mind. Hopefully WP3 will be as interesting as it seems like it will be. Creativity is key for WP3 and I'm hoping that I can integrate my creativity with school-work, because for all of my life those have been pretty separate parts of me.
In class today we briefly talked about summaries. I am still a little unclear on this because the summaries on the board were usually just one sentence, but I’m assuming that in our PB3A, our summaries had to be longer than that. I understand the concept of a summary, I just hope that mine came through in a concise way, since that is often something I struggle with.
I actually am excited to look back at my WPs and take the comments to heart to try to change some stuff around, hopefully improving my papers. I think that not just seeing the comments, but the act of creating new essays will really help me to see where I went wrong and why.
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