Sabrina Shao's 4th Blog Post

I thought that the Mike Rose essay was very interesting. It is kind of weird seeing "science" and english being brought together. After reading his essay, I realize that I too operate under the rigid rule and the inflexible plan. The good thing is that sophomore year, I realized that I could never use outlines because I get so sucked into the concept that I never let myself venture outside of my outline. When I have an outline, all I see is the outline so I stop considering changing my argument in any way and I stop considering the other possibilities that could make my writing better. Ever since then, I stopped using outlines because I find them too constricting. It wasn't until after reading this article that I realize that my problem is not that outlines are too constricting, it is that the outline that I wrote was too constricting. It was too detailed and it did not allow me to change my mind about any decisions I had made when making the outline. 

I, however, still work under the rigid plan. I usually need to do things in order so when I am writing an essay, I have to start at an introduction, then a thesis, then the body paragraphs and finally the conclusion. In my head, this is how the flow should go. This was never really emphasized at my school. In fact, we are usually taught to start with a thesis and then the body paragraphs and then go back to edit the thesis. It is only after that we write the introduction and conclusion. This, however, does not really sit well with me because in my mind, I have to start with the introduction. Often times, this mindset stops me from writing because I keep changing my hook sentence. I can never really settle on one. When I finally give up, I write a really bad hook and then proceed on. I don't usually like rereading my essays, mostly because I never usually had time since I always procrastinated and wrote it at the last second. I know that I have to change this because it has come to really prevent me from writing well. That and maybe cause I truly am a bad writer. I have started to change this because I have gotten tired of waiting for inspiration to strike about my hook sentence. It is a slow process, however, to quit this mindset but I think that I am.

I just wanna say really quick that I really liked Lamott's paper, "Shitty First Draft". It was a quick read and very interesting. It made me feel a little better about my first drafts always turning out so terrible. It also gave me a good timeline for what I should do when I plan to write something. The way that Lamott wrote was very light and it made it so easy to relate to her. I really enjoyed this paper so thanks for making us read it.

If I am not wrong, the general idea of presupposition is that everything is based off of something else. Now my question is, are presuppositions applicable to everything? Today, I was buying a pair of shorts from Under Armor for the club team that I am on. I don't normally buy workout clothes from Under Armor so I was not sure what size I should get. Knowing my size in Lululemon shorts, I used the sizing chart of Lulu and compared it to the sizing chart of Under Armor and figured out my size from Under Armor shorts. If I didn't know my size for Lulu, I would never have been able to figure out what size I was for Under Armor. My knowledge of my size in Under Armor shorts is based off of both my knowledge of my size in Lululemon shorts and the sizing charts. So is this considered a presupposition?

Personally, I think that, based off my understanding of presuppositions, my example is one. How is this any different than understanding a meme because I had previous knowledge of what the images in the meme meant. Having previous knowledge of my size has allowed me to understand the Lulu sizing chart which in turn helped me to figure out what size I was for Under Armor using the Under Armor sizing chart. Feel free to comment with your thoughts on this.