'Move' is Starting to Look Like a Made Up Word / Thlog 5

On this week’s edition of: What the hell did we do last week?

.. Okay, obviously I am going crazy here. Midterm season has got everyone wound up just a little tighter than usual, myself included. Hope all of you are surviving out there. I'm forever grateful that there are no midterms in this class. However, we still have classes packed with information and assignments. This week, we started off talking about our WP1, as well as the PB2A we did. 

Along with that, we were introduced to several topics this week:

• italics and their appropriate usage of them
• disciplines
• categorizing different disciplines
• MOVES

Obviously, the big topic of the day/week/quarter is “moves.” It’s an interesting idea, but I think it has as much impact as it does because of the learning process. Prior to teaching the actual meaning of “moves,” we were given the opportunity to speculate its meaning. What do we think “moves” means? What does it mean to us? After discussing our thoughts and discovering what it truly meant, we were given several examples to put this new information to practice. Watching The Rock and Michael Jordan perform their moves repeatedly helped cement what a move really was. However, I found myself more intrigued by how every individual move performed was so similar to prior performances. Whenever The Rock performed “The People’s Elbow,” he would never fail to taunt his victim through a sort of victory dance. With Michael Jordan’s plays, he would always bounce the ball of that backboard in order to get it in the basket. It was as if they had formulas for their moves, with each little, minor action adding up to the actual “move” itself.

This whole ordeal can loosely relate to writing. However, in writing, these small actions happen to be minor details in our writing, such as sentence structure or diction. These several distinctive choices made by a writer result in a very obvious personality attached with the writing. With this train of thought, a writer’s moves not only reveals much about, well, their writing. It also reveals a lot about the person writing.