Thlog # 7

Sorry for being late again… but heres my weekly thlog still. This week in class what caught my eyes from the readings was the reading we did in class of the chief’s paper. It gave me ideas on how to improve my WP1 and WP2 for the final portfolio. I’ve been struggling with having an argumentative thesis in my WP’s since I did to be too broad and I saw how she was able to talk about the the articles while also directly stating her point. I also found working on the presentation with my group to be easy but hard at the same time. Commas are a topic that almost everyone knows how to use so to be able to do a 12-15-minute presentation about them was difficult. Semicolons on the other hand are not as known since most people just use commas and periods. However, the semicolon isn’t as confusing as people make it out to be. It gives more separation between words or phrases than a comma does but less than a period. So it is essentially used when a comma won’t provide adequate separation. What I found interesting when I was trying to find stuff about semicolons is that many sites place commas and semicolons against each other. They made it seem that semicolons are very hard to use when they really aren’t. Semicolons are easy to use but one has to know where to place them properly in their writing. I’ll admit I need to use more semicolons in my writing but I do know how to use them.