Thlog 1

This week was pretty great in Writing 2. I learned about rhetoric (I guess? I honestly do not really know if I learned much of anything about rhetoric, I think it is how a text or work or whatever is presented and considers audience and things, but my brain visualizes rhetoric as this gray cloud). I learned about genre and genre expectations, and how we form genre expectations ourselves, and in what ways genre exists. Genre does not just exist in film and books and merely creative works, I learned. Genre exists everywhere. I also appreciate the two different forms of writing that we learned exist. The 1st order and 2nd order. Since I learned about this, I have allowed myself to start writing more 1st-orderly. I’m pretty sure that is the one that involves unrestricted writing. It is very liberating and I feel that my ideas and words flow much easier than 2nd order writing. I think I have always written 1st-orderly to some respect, especially since getting into college; I think this is because I understand that education higher than grade school is more liberal and more understanding of what really makes a good education. It is nice, however, to be aware of these different aspects of writing. I am not entirely a 1st order writer, however. At least I don’t think I am, because even while writing this, at moments I just stop and realize that I lost my train of thought. I understand that first order writing does not necessarily need to follow a train of thought, but for some reason I still feel like I am not absolutely willing to let go of the wheel. So it is not like my actual writing is 1st order right now, but more like my thought process is more 1st order. I still like to ensure that I am writing with respectable grammar and a hint of pretension.