Week 4 Thlog

I felt like this week was very beneficial for me becoming a more effective reader and writer. We learned a lot about the author's moves, and how they can tell us about the intended audience, the author's intentions and any hidden truths the paper has. In addition, learning about the writers moves can help us in our own writing. By analyzing the writer's moves and seeing how they have laid out their paper and portrayed their ideas in a certain format, we can derive certain aspects from it that we like and think would work effectively in our own work. At first, I found it a bit difficult identifying the writer's format and "moves", because the pieces we read in class were structured differently and didn't exactly have a uniform way of presenting ideas and laying them out. However, after making a reverse layout and actually reading the body paragraphs before the intro and thesis, it made the piece easier to understand and I was about to identify some of the author's moves and form an opinion on them. Aside from the work we did in class and identifying the most important parts of a publication through the PB1b, I learned more about author's moves and identifying them through the reader Reading like a Writer. I learned some interesting approaches on how to identify these moves which ultimately gives me a better understanding of the rhetoric behind a piece. All in all, this was a very beneficial week for me and I feel like I'm learning a lot of cool, new things.