Thlog 4

Talking about this “Portfolio” for the past couple of classes has put me on edge. It just seems like so much work in so little time. While we were in class when we were going over the handout on what he need for the “Portfolio” it was like DP just kept going on and on with different assignments we need. Even though we already have most of the equipment we need to complete this “Portfolio” it still seems like a lot because of all of the revisions we have to do and all the analyzing we also have to do.

What I am kind of confused about is the Reverse Outline which states “To facilitate your WP1 and WP2 revisions, I want you to “re-see” your papers.  One way you can accomplish that is by creating a reverse outline for each of your WPs.  Condense each paragraph into its main point and how/why it supports (or doesn’t!) your argument—one or two sentences is fine.  I suggest creating a 3-column table to do this (see below), but I’m open to other arrangements.” So what I am asking is I’m taking my WP1 stating what I was trying to argue, then take what I was trying to argue in each one of my paragraphs, and then tell you how it connects to my main argument of the whole paper? And then that’s it right? Then do the same thing for my WP2? This whole reverse outline is to be done before the revising of my WP1 and WP2 to help revise my WP1 and WP2 correct? With the “Revision Matrix” I feel as though it was pretty clear until I got to this chart.

Text from my initial WP submission: (a phrase, sentence, paragraph, idea, move, punctuation, piece of evidence, etc.)	An observation or question I received from De Piero or a classmate:	The change(s) I made to what I initially wrote: (ie, the change[s] I made to column 1)	How this change impacts my paper:
	“What’s the connection between these two sentences? How do these ideas connect?

I feel as though column 1, 3, and 4 was clear, but I don’t understand where column 2 comes into play. Is column 2 mandatory because it’s really confusing me and I don’t want to lose any unnecessary points.

Thlog 3

These past couple of weeks I feel have been super duper hectic and chaotic. With the Septa strike that happened, with finding out we’ll be stuck with Donald Trump as our president for at least four years, and with specially me getting into my accident. I just feel as though my focus hasn’t really been on school lately and my grades are reflecting that also. It’s just a lot trying to be productive towards things outside of school and still trying to focus on school at the same time. Even though I don’t have a problem with turning my work in on time, I still feel as though that my work is just mediocre because my all isn’t going into the work as of lately. It’s hard while getting into the groove of writing a paper and then you r mind just jumps to other things going on in your life. Do you think there’s anything to help that? That was a serious question any suggestions?

To me I think that the WP2 was by far the hardest writing assignment we did throughout this course. I felt it was kind of difficult trying to argue two other people’s arguments and still maintain a strong argument yourself. Also with this assignment it felt more difficult than any other assignment we had to include the course readings or maybe it was just me. I feel like a complete idiot for what I did on my WP2 even though it wasn’t intentional and I made an honest mistake I just made that mistake one too many times. With that being said only DP will know what that means. My WP2 grade reflected that horribly but I hope it doesn’t have a major major impact on my final grade and whether or not I pass this class.