The most significant changes I made to my theory of writing are the terms I learned in this course and there meanings which are often different from the ones I had thought them before this class. The largest addition was the last few paragraphs to the statement which incorporated a lot of what we learned in the final third of this class. Though I feel some of it was touched on inadvertently in the concepts of previous drafts, I wanted to center the focus on some of them more to show my new understanding of them. The last paragraph was mostly the extended metaphor that was just a note before and not included in the statement but I felt that it summed up lots of the larger ideas and framed the theory well. Its main points are weaved in and out of each paragraph. One of the larger things I cut was one of the last lines in the first paragraphs talking about writing as a type of scapegoat because after your comment I saw how it didn’t not fit as well in the overall themes and was more of a tangent than anything substantial in regard to argument or evidence. Another thing I noticed while I was iterating my ideas in this statement is how much I can learn if I take a moment to translate study concepts into my own words. It makes them easier to digest and to remember. Much of the statement is using this personal technique of learning by not directly giving all the terms this course laid out but are there all the same by definition in the way I understood them. 

I am still hesitant on the word “meta genre” because if my notes and the online resources I perused helped to refresh the concept, it is not a genre that has a bunch of smaller genres under its umbrella, though it is that too, but rather a guide on how those genre function within it and the patterns one can find within them. I think as I continue on in English studies the concept may reveal itself again and may be easier for me to grasp and to incorporate in my theory. I think the deposition ideas in my statement will help me be more metacognitive in future written work for sure and the method of “re-terming” concepts into ones I can more easily access will help me when facing challenging ones. I also think that that could help me even after graduating, by knowing if I am aware of those emotions and that they may be having an effect on my writing, I may be able to stop myself before something gets out of hand in a bad way in my written work or perhaps even overboard in what I thought to be a good way. I also think the idea of making writing multimodal and accessible is a good thing to keep in mind in my future career which may be teaching or starting my own business. Both can benefit from an expansion of writing techniques in regard to putting one's work out there.