This week in class I learned that a discipline is an area of study, similar to a major. People in different disciplines do research on the same topics, just in different ways. For example, for my WP2, I looked at scholarly articles on criminal behavior from two different disciplines, sociology and psychology. While the psych article looked at behaviors and mentality of four different murderers, the soc article discussed how society contributes to murders in general. I also learned about moves that authors make in their writing. A move can be almost anything, from introducing a quote, to explaining that quote, to simply changing the font on a specific word to give it more emphasis. There were many examples of these moves in the “They Say, I Say” appendix that I used in my Pb2B and WP2. I liked the activity where we identified the moves in the song by Sublime — it helped me better understand the concept of “moves” in general, considering I couldn’t even answer the journal question at the beginning of Monday’s class. The writing tip about leaving yourself comments was helpful as well. I usually use asterisks in my writing so I know that I have to come back and revise/add something, but sometimes when I come back to it I forget what I need to change. Actually adding in comments to remind myself what needs to be revised is much easier and much more effective. I’m also really glad you made it clear that Wikipedia is okay to use for basic information, because it is my go to website when I’m starting a paper or project.
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