Thlog #3 - A Very Spoopy Thlog

As I get farther into the course, I get scared. This week in class we started to step away from the "Fabulousness" professor and got to know the "Rules!" professor. Well, not completely. I feel that we experimented with both, but the strict writing definitely came into the picture this week. We talked about our writing process and the things we should look for in our papers. We discussed having a working thesis that passes the "arguability" test, which is pretty much exactly what it sounds like--although blogger tells me arguability is not a word. Basically, there needs to be another side to your argument--there has to be some sort of opposition. Even though it sounds easy, thinking back on my WP1, it almost feels like I didn't pass the arguability test. WP1 was very challenging for me, and therefore scary. I felt a little out of place while writing it. I didn't exactly know what I was doing even after reading the prompt OVER and OVER again. I feel like it had most of what the prompt asked for, but it was missing part of me. Our peer reviews were helpful but they basically reassured my notions-- my paper was and is not good enough. The reverse outline we completed in class was definitely more helpful than my self-criticism. It allowed me to see how I could further connect my paper, and I also loved seeing all the colors coming together and overlapping from time to time. It gave me a better sense of what WP1 was looking for but still not enough. I hope that I at least gave my group members good enough feedback for their revisions. I feel like I tried to give this week my all but it didn't translate into my paper. The whole process was very stressful for me and at times I didn't even want to go back to look at my paper. I felt like the pressure of the course finally dropped on me. I hope that this is a sign that I will improve. I am definitely looking forward to working on WP2 because this time I will be able to use the tips and tricks we learned in class earlier in my writing process and be able to revise my paper more times than I did this time. 

WPs are very scary.