Thlog #3

3 weeks down, 7 to go!  Wow this quarter is already flying by.  We only had a single class this week and we were peer reviewing.  I honestly have never focused so much on peer reviewing my classmates papers before I have this week.  In a lot of the previous writing classes I took, we would basically be given a prompt and it's all up to us to make a draft, revise, and turn in the final draft.  But in our class, we focused on peer reviewing a lot.  The reading "Responding to Other Student's Writing" was very interesting because it taught me that I need to be able to give positive feedback to the writer.  I often criticize much more than giving positive feedback on other's papers so it was nice to be able to help other students and let them know exactly what good writing they are doing.  I also liked the groups we were put into to.  It allowed us to branch out the the other classmates and get to know them a little better; I mean we are a very open class.
As I began to revise my own paper, I realized that I needed to work on my thesis a bit.  I do believe it passes the arguability test because you can put a "no" or "does not" in the thesis.  I am arguing that human interest articles do indeed tell some sort of story or a struggle that is overcome.  With saying that, you can stick in a "human interest articles do not contain some sort of struggle or conquering an obstacle."  I think that I did pretty well for the first writing project.  I really did not enjoy it that much though because I enjoy writing about more personalized papers.  With this, we mostly analyzed our genre and discussed that so I am excited to see what the next writing project has in store for us.