Blog 3R

Three weeks into the course, and already I found myself reevaluating the way I read and write. Over the past couple weeks, we’ve been learning to develop better and more well developed thesis statements. Writing has always been my strong suit, but as I think back, my thesis statements seemingly came across as broad and basic. Hopefully, this course will help me to develop such well-developed thesis that my papers will seemingly just flow better; I’d like to build a thesis that presents such a strong argument that my paper will be able to hold 4-6 paragraphs worth of supporting details.

                Aside from the thesis statement, we have been discussing the differences between autobiographies and biographies. The pieces we’ve read so far, in which are of autobiographical nature, are the pieces that have seemingly caught my full and undivided attention. What’s better than writing about you? Who knows you better than you? Nobody. You can take such a creative spin on your take and your writing, all while telling your factual life story and that’s what I love most about it. I like that fact that in an autobiography you’re recalling on accounts in your life, but taking your own creative knowledge and placing different tones and styles behind the content and context of your autobiography.

                Summarizing and responding… Now I know that these are two completely different things. With more practice I plan on being able to respond to a writer’s piece with little to no effort. I plan on finding specific things in a writer’s work and being able to respond to it individually. I think this will come with better critical reading skills and a better sense of reading for analysis instead of reading for information.