Thloggg #2

Whoa I am seriously so glad this week is over. Although my weekend was great because I got to come home and spend time with my family, this week was very frustrating. I feel like I am taking on way too much that I can handle in life right now but let’s see how it goes. Now that I am done venting I will go on with my thlog.

Well besides writing about what we learned in class this week or through our readings, I want to focus today’s blog on what I like about this class and what I found helpful. I really enjoy our daily blogs in the beginning of class because it really helps me get my life together real quick and get my thoughts out and down on paper (online paper) but I am really fond of our weekly tips from Zack. This might sound stupid BUT this week when Zack gave us the simple tip of reading over our week I really started to think about my entire college experience. I have always been told by teachers to read over my paper and to read it out loud because there are a lot of simple mistakes that could have been avoided. It is one thing to skim through a paper but it is another to actually read it carefully and then read it out loud to hear what you wrote (reading it out loud does make a difference). So when Zack said this and I started thinking about my past writings I kind of felt bad because I have always been told that I am a great writer but that I make a lot of careless little mistakes because I do not read over my work which is completely TRUE. So I really appreciated this feedback from Zack because I kind of felt like he was talking to me in particular so this is definitely something I want to work on more this quarter because I have many classes that require writing and I completely want to give it my best. That means no procrastinating and actually reading over my work.

Another thing I want to bring up that we learned this week was the difference between hyphens and dashes. Although this sounds like something so simple that everyone should know, this is not the case. I actually did not know there was a difference until Wednesday. I learned that hyphens are to connect two words that cannot stand alone in the sentence. For example, 18-year olds or on-campus. These are words that basically need each other to make sense in a sentence. On the other hand, dashes are used for somewhat of a pause, like a comma or a thought break.