Make Your Move: Thlog 5

      The Brofessor made some major moves this week in class. Its crazy to realize that this is already the end of week 5, time has been flying by this quarter. I guess that time flies when your writing is fun! Anyways, this week help some hidden treasures that will surely help to improve everyone's reading and writing skills.
      Key concept number one involved the idea of moves, which I now seem to notice in all areas of my life. I wasn't quite sure about the significance of the idea at first, but the activity involving clips of Michael Jordan and The Rock's majestic wrestling move 'The People's Elbow' really clarified the idea and helped me to understand the ways in which people make major moves. Applying this to reading and writing, we can observe that rhetor's constantly make moves and decisions about the best way to express their ideas with different choices of structure, style, and tone. I feel as though this concept will haunt me for life now, and can never be unseen - people everywhere are always making moves!
     Following up on the rest of the material from this week, we read a keystone piece about the importance of reading like a writer. This idea is huge! It involves perceiving the world around us in a way that allows us to learn from the work of others and apply their techniques to our own life. In the context of reading, if we engage with a piece of writing from the position of a fellow writer, we can observe patterns, conventions, and moves which contribute to the piece and utilize them in the expression of our own ideas. I really took this concept to heart, and look at pieces of writing in a completely different way by analyzing the critical components of an author's work. Stoked to finish out the second half of this quarter strong!