Even though my contributions to the intellectual life of the class might have not been the best I believe that they were helpful not only to me but to some of my peers. Specifically in the peer reviews, I felt that those were crucial to the class, because every student had the opportunity to read and analyze another’s paper. By giving helpful criticism to someone else 's paper we were all receiving a new view into the type of essay we needed to be writing, therefore giving our own essays a new point of view to revise with. Consequently, peer reviews helped me learn to communicate better because I really wanted to give constructive criticism that my peers would find helpful towards improving their essays, so that I could also receive some in exchange. For example in the last essay I wrote one of the critics that I had was that one of my paragraphs was all wrong and that it really just did not mean much.…
Where they found that, “in fact, well over 90 percent of the sentences coded clear and error free.” One thing which caught my interest was the difference of opinion between the two authors about Peer review and its result. As per Teller’s experience, peer reading is mostly a waste of time and energy with no productive outcome of a good composition, Hesse thinks otherwise. He states that some of the best written work has come out of peer reading experiments. While, Teller thinks that students usually ignore their classmates’ suggestions in peer workshops, Hesse explains that they acknowledge the feedback and produce their best…
There are many challenges that follow enrolling in college classes and with each challenge comes a weight students have to carry for the semester. A few of the weights students have to carry are the college bills, class work, and planning around class time. Students have to be careful not to carry too much or else they will be crushed. A student can think that they signed up for a light load, but after the first day of class discover they signed up for more than they can carry. It can be hard to judge just how heavy something can be; the easiest weight can be misjudged on how hard a college course will be.…
When reading The Everyday Writer, written by Andrea A. Lunsford, director of the program in writing and rhetoric at Stanford University, I realized the importance of revising and reviewing of writing. Learning the process of writing will help greatly; therefore, assignments in the future will be more advanced and proper. In fact, peer editing is a fantastic strategy for the perfect paper; sometimes when one edits their own work they might overlook a few things, having someone else edit the paper gives another perspective to the writing. Being open to another opinion and attaining other opinions can open the mind to improve the writing. Seaman High School, where I attend, offers the Writing Center, ran by students and staff is to help improve…
I really appreciated the feedback I would receive from my drafts from Professor Hedge. The draft feedback was always helpful and it guided me in the right direction on what she was looking for in the assignments. Peer workshops sometimes did benefit me but it depended on who my partner was and their interest in my essay. When I was partners with someone who was interest in what I had to say in my essay it helped. I noticed that majority of the time feedback I would receive from my classmates often times was similar to the feedback I would get back from my professor.…
Reflection Essay Taking English 105 has made me grow as a writer. I have learned an extensive amount of information about writing papers, critiquing papers, and editing papers. I have gained new writing skills on top improving my basic writing skills. Working with people and having my paper critiqued by classmates has also impacted my writing.…
They must accept the criticism of others and be suspicious of it; they must accept the praise of others and be even suspicious of it”. That stuck with me the whole course, I was sacred to let other students peer edit my paper. I would think back to this quote and reread may paper before we did peer read. I learn it’s good to get other thoughts and opinion Murray also said all criticism is good…
I actually did not have a problem composing this essay. All my thoughts came to me clearly because there’s so many reasons why I choice Georgia Southern. The most challenging aspect of writing this essay was probably how to organize all my thoughts. At first all my thoughts were disorganized and reading my first draft made me fell is if I was just stating facts and not explaining them. After class on Wednesday when we went over the see-it lesson my paper was dramatically changed.…
Those who do not write often or feel the process of writing meaningless may not come to agree with the argument that Bartholomae is showing his readers. Bartholomae is arguing that strategy of error analysis. Error analysis is basically the act of reviewing your own failures and learning from them. These failures can be seen in anything that one does in their lifetime. In Bartholomae’s case we are talking about error in writing.…
Over the course of English 102, I have developed a new set of skills and learned to become a better writer. When I first came into English 102 I struggled with many different concepts of writing. During the semester in English 102, my writing became stronger because I learned how to incorporate evidence into my argument, do more thorough research, have smoother transitions, and have more organization throughout my essay. I learned how to peer review better and to take what others say and incorporate it into my essay. In the beginning, before English 102, I struggled with good organization and flow to an essay, sandwich evidence into paragraphs, and having strong arguments in persuasive essays.…
I always have felt like I've had a natural skill for writing. I was able to just sit down and type the paper with out putting any effort into how it was constructed and organized. I would get good grades and scoring high on the reading section of the ACT only boosted my confidence. Once I reached college, I realized after a few class periods that I would need to put some more effort into my papers and that this was a new experience for developing and improving my writing skills, and also my listening skills. I opened up my eyes to all of the opportunities I have to improve my work.…
I never really had a good experience with peer-review back in high-school. It was mostly used as a time to mess around with classmates and do other stuff besides working on our papers. Needless to say, I wasn’t really looking forward to it. Once we actually got around to peer-reviewing I found it surprisingly helpful. I was able to get a lot of useful information from my partners on how I should improve my paper before turning it.…
However, I know that editing improves your work and make it look better. Every time I thought that I was done there was always a mistake that needed to be corrected. Correcting a paper that is 20 pages or less is much easier than a paper with more than 70 pages. Researching articles to support evidence and increase knowledge on the topic was a process that I enjoyed. Summarizing the articles was a difficult process for some of the articles that were found.…
The activity that we did as a class was the peer editing workshop for our papers which help me develop my writing skills. Doing the peer editing workshop helped me understand what errors that needed to be corrected and to hear the negative or positive comments from my peers. For example, the last essay we did in class was the argument essay and my topic was about “The Problem of Uninsured Motorists.” The one negative comment I got from the essay was that the essay was…
Adolescence period has a specific role in the life of a person. It is a transitional period from childhood to adulthood. It is a unique phase of life which a child goes and explores different things on their own. A physical, emotional and social change. Social influence has a major impact throughout life, namely for adolescents and for their involvement in certain risk or health behaviors.…