WP1 Reverse Outline


Paragraph #
Main Idea/Summary
1
The way an individual interprets things, such as movies, is based upon their opinions and ideas.

2
There were a lot of mixed emotions surrounding the movie Twilight after it was released, and the movie reviews written about it reflect those confused feelings.
3
The target audience and their thoughts are clear after reading this specific review, fellow twilight haters explaining why they thought the movie was bad.
4
Romance is a genre where the plot revolves around the highs and lows of love and relationships.
5
The emotional appeal from the movie was strong enough to impact this person and convinced them write a review on it based on the fact that they felt that emotion in their heart.
6
Movie reviews can often be pulled in two different directions depending on the writer’s personal feelings.
7
A counter-argument has the ability to make your writing pieces even more powerful.
8
Movie reviews have their own types of strengths and weaknesses. 
9
Genre helps us establish the main points of whatever type of literature we are analyzing. 

Doing this activity in class definitely opened my eyes up to the fact that the structure of my WP1 was not exactly where I wanted it to be. There were paragraphs that would've made more sense at the beginning and paragraphs that would've made more sense towards the conclusion of my paper. My paper pretty much had the same structure throughout which was introduce my topic, bring in evidence from my own sources I found or our assigned readings, analyze that quote and then add my own input. I guess the reasoning behind this would be simply that I was used to this style of writing in high school and this would be considered an A+ paper. Receiving feedback on my paper was also another extremely helpful tool to help me revise some aspects, things that I may not have been able to pinpoint myself. After reading the comments that were made on my paper and doing this exercise, I'm going to restructure my paper completely. I think the two paragraphs that stuck out to me the most that could be flipped around were #7 and #8. Switching these two paragraphs would allow the tone and style of my paper to flow more easily and would just simply make more sense. There are other aspects of my paper that I need to change also, such as, further explaining my analysis on the quotes I pulled from our assigned readings. The biggest part of my paper that, in my opinion, needs to be rewritten completely is my thesis statement which would then change the whole argument and structure of my paper. 

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