OMG it is here! Midterms are here and I am half way to my death bed. No not really, I just finished 2 midterms so I am pretty exhausted but I am kind of, sort of, excited for this weeks PB2B.
Before that though, I think this week was pretty interesting. We put more simple things more into depth and searched for the real meaning behind it. On Monday we worked on italics. We spoke about why we use them, where to use them in, and when to use them. I never really payed attention to why people used italics, I just never used them unless I was citing an article because that is the only way I knew how to use them, but today we learned otherwise. Italics is used to emphasize a word or phrase and make sure it stands out of the entire paper. So this means we should NOT use it in every other word. I like the how butterfly quote about italics. This is literally such a beautiful quote, " Think of italics as butterflies that might swoop across the page, allow them to flit about, land here and there, softly; gently; don't treat them as a blanket that must spread itself across the entire page. The butterfly approach will bring a dash of color; the blanket approach will darken everything" (William Noble). I think I might be reading too much into it but this quote was very helpful.
Then we focused on MOVES! It sounds funny to say because it is something so simple but after going into it more in depth I realized we all have certain "moves" in our style of writing. We looked into The Rocks wrestling moves, Surfer AJ's friends moves, Michael Jordans moves, etc. and it was just really interesting to realize that we literally have a move for everything. People do, say, act certain ways because that is their special move, it is like their signature.
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