Peer Review Reflection

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When first meeting Mrs. Duet I knew, she would be a difficult teacher because she liked to contract her students on what we could write about. She also only gave us 3-4 days to write an assignment, but would what the week of the assignment to explain what we and to do and expect everything to be correct. February 1, 2017, we talked about grammar and plagiarism, everything you go over in English 101. Yet, we didn’t go over on our first writing assignment until February 10th when she told us we had a peer review on Monday, this peer review was for an argument essay. We used different examples in the book, “The Curious Writer”, so we would know how doing an argumentative essay. But, after the peer review, she gave us until the 17, that Friday to revise the paper and turn it in for a final grade. …show more content…
She started on my paper I was plagiarizing, but she gave me a chance to correct it. I went to the writing center and asked a man there if he could look over my paper and tell me what I wronged. So, as he explained what was wrong, I corrected everything that was wrong and when I turned it back in, I thought it was correct. She gave it back a couple of days is later and told me I was still plagiarizing and that this was my last chance to fix this; I asked her two questions about her notes and changed many things the paper, it didn’t even me the word count after I finished revising it and on March 8th I turned it in. So along with revising this paper and getting help to revise it, I thought it was okay, but I still got a zero. My A went to an F; I was so upset because I worked hard on this paper and the fact I had revised this paper twice gotten help and even asked her question about what was wrong with it and I still got an F. I didn’t think I deserved that since I was doing everything I thought she wanted within this

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