Thlog 4

Week 4 has come to pass and we have finished up the first part of PB2.  I have found myself struggling to find motivation and inspiration in my writing this year.  Ordinarily I find writing easy and it just flows, but as we continue to write about textual genres and conventions, I find my lack of interest in the topic hinders my writing.  Regardless of how hard I try to convince myself that there is something useful to be gained from this topic, I find myself spending a long time sitting in front of my computer struggling to put what I want into words.  Hopefully if I work on starting my papers with first order thinking and return to revise it with second order, things will flow a little better for me.  I found the reading this week, "How to Read Like a Writer" by Mike Bunn, to be particularly interesting.  The main idea that I got from this reading is that I should begin to ask myself what specifically the author did to make me feel a certain way or reach a certain conclusion.  This ties in well to our current lesson of "moves".  Mike Bunn's reading is telling us that we can gain knowledge for our own writing by trying to determine what moves the author of our reading makes, and how those moves affect us.