Thloggin'

I know I say this at the beginning of every thlog, but the learning just never stops with DP. My favorite activity of the week was by far the group murder activity. Not only do I love working in groups with other people, but I also enjoyed writing the dramatic email to the tenant garage workers. After the reading in the course reader and performing the activity in class, I definitely have a better understanding of rhetoric now. I officially learned that rhetoric is how you make decisions on what words to use in a certain situation and how you go about presenting those words.

I just remembered the videos we watched in class on Wednesday, so that is currently taking the spot of my favorite activity this week. I like how the definition and idea of "moves" were presented in a non-academic way because it definitely helped me learn the concept better. It was fun to watch Michael Jordan do his signature move, the under and over bank into the basket. I learned that moves are supposed to impact (affect lol) the audience and people use different moves depending on their audience. I realized that we use moves in our every day lives, for example, when I'm dancing at a party I always do my signature moves. Everybody knows its my signature move when they see me and it may even be better than Michael Jackson's moves. Just kidding.

Another important thing to add was that I learned a lot from DP's comments on my WP1. I now know the areas I need to improve upon so I can kill WP2.