Common place--We r coming!

Finally, the RAP is done and we are moving to the common place.

As I go through some of the passages in common place, I find them are all good public writing. They are not as formal as the essay we turned in, but also too random. They all have a clear thesis and strong arguments. The passage structure is read-friendly, and the sentences are precise. Even the passages are not very long, they all have pretty good primary and secondary sources as back up their arguments. The topics are easy to attract attention from people of my age. And also, the tone is pretty different form the pervious essays. Some sentence may even sound like daily conversations. That’s a lot different from the RAP assignment, I think, as the RAP may avoid using “we” or “you”.


To me, the similarity between works on commonplace and RAP is that both of them are focused on a topic and use secondary sources to argue the author’s view. The difference may lay in the priority. The RAP is something like pick up a primary source first and analyze it. Then find the related argument and argue it with backup of secondary source. At this point, there are a lot of analysis in the RAP. And the argument goes closely with the analysis. But for the commonplace, it’s more like idea oriented, but not source oriented. That is to say, there isn’t so much analysis in commonplace papers.

As for my RAP project shifting to common place, I think I may pick up a topic that is more interesting and appealing. Maybe talk about the influence of technology or phones on youngsters. I may talk more about my ideas than analyzing the primary commercials. A summary instead of more details of my RAP’S primary and secondary source may serve better. The resources may share the proportion of the paper rather than one focused. I may add my own daily life experience as example since that maybe closer to life of people of my age. As for timely, I think talk about the newest electronics and technology may also help. I haven’t form a clear idea of how to reshape my work. Hopefully, I will find my way.

It’s common sense that technology or phones has affect out daily life a lot. People talk about it all the time. It’s really something that is closely related to our life as well as this era. All I hope is just to talk about it with my peers and add another powerful argument to the topic.

All in all, I hope we all can have wonderful experince with common place.