Writing log 2A

I found my first hot spot of Chapter 1 on page 6. It reads: "Thus writing isn't just a way to express thought; it is a way to do the thinking itself." I chose this as one of my hot spots because I felt that this sentence, along with the paragraph as a whole, explains what writing is in a very profound way. It explains that writing is a thought process in itself. It explains that unlike when you are speaking, writing gives you time to think deeply before you actually express your ideas. Writing is a way to communicate your ideas, but with "a deeper, clearer, and more complex level of thought," (page 6).

The second hot spot that I am going to use from the first chapter is on page 20. I am using Table 1.1 as my hot spot. I never realized how many different options there were when it came to writing. The table is also very easy to follow. It would make it easy to write a good paper. If you know what you want the aim of your paper to be, you can figure out what the focus of your writing should be, the relationship to the audience, and the forms and genre's, and vice versa.

After reading Chapter 2, I found two hot spots. The first one is found on page 30. It reads: "A C paper and an A paper may have the same "answer" (identical thesis statements) but the C writer may have waded only ankle deep into the mud of complexity, whereas the A writer wallowed in it and worked a way out." I thought that the choice of words the authors used were very interesting. They explained the difference between an A paper and a C paper very well, using a metaphor that was witty.

The second hot spot that I chose is found on page 32. It is the section that is entitled "Freewriting." I chose this as a hot spot because i find the concept of free writing very interesting. I enjoy free writing. I enjoy looking back at my writings and noticing different themes, or noticing how my writing flows from one thing to another, connecting different ideas. I also like to look back and see how I organized the paper. Depending on the topic, or questions I have to answer, the organization of the paper will probably be different.

While reading Chapter 3, I found my first hot spot on page 50. It reads: "An angle of vision-which might also be called a lens, a filter, a perspective, a bias, a point of view-is persuasive because it controls what the reader "sees."" I agree with this because even slight words that the writer uses, will let a reader come to their own conclusion on what the writer truly means or what their opinion is on the subject. A writer can create so many different angles of vision just by using different words or phrases.

The second hot spot that I found in Chapter 3 was on page 60. It reads: "Not only do visual images have rhetorical power, but so do many of our consumer choices." I found this section very interesting. It is amusing to compare the difference between humans and different species of animals. Humans are the only species that "by nature respond to symbols." We pay attention so much to what other people are wearing and the different symbols that people use.