Peer Review Assignment: Participatory Writing In Middle School

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Writing is a language used to convey or prove something. However, humans don’t get the skills to effectively describe what they are talking about from the air. Writing is a skill that requires a lot of practice to master. Because during our lifetimes we gradually get exposed to more difficult types of writing from narrative and expository writing in middle school, to argumentative writing in high school. We need to develop that skill through hardships, trial and error, and even our accomplishments from the moment we stepped into a middle school to graduating from college. With this in mind, I need to reflect on previous pieces and improve on them. One piece in particular was about music and how it should or should not be in advertisements. …show more content…
First, I review a person’s writing which when I looked didn’t have much differences as mine. The more similar things were the structure we both followed, my structure for body went from claim to evidence to commentary and then evidence again, with more commentary. However, there were some differences like my essay was significantly longer, had more paragraphs, and most important I had a counterclaim and the other person didn’t. I wasn’t worried at all in this peer review assignment because in my opinion my essay was good and If I were to grade I would give a 8.5/10 or maybe a 9. One the reasons why I think that my grade should be so high is because I felt the flow, the structure and the length was proper. By proper I mean not too short and not too long, which I think is the amount u want for any essay regarding any subject. Whenever, I first got my essay back from my peers I noticed that there weren’t many mistakes that were major. All the mistakes were fairly simple, like word choice and the perfection of what I was trying to say, but they gave some tips and I fixed those small, yet important errors. By this someone would notice that I am very flexible with my work and am very open to

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