Peer Review Reflection

This past semester has been challenging in different aspects. When I first began this course, I expected it to be my easiest class and an overall “guaranteed A”. However, as the course progressed it because one of my most difficult courses. The difficulties that I had to overcome were expressed in the progressions of my writings and the transition between being a self-reviewer to a peer reviewer. Before I proceed to the reflection of my favorite writing pieces, I would first like to discuss the enjoyable parts of this course. The first thing that I loved about this course is that there was no required textbook. This was an amazing gift in my opinion because in a lot of cases each of my professors assign a three-hundred-dollar textbook that …show more content…
As mentioned above, I loved the major writing assignments. However, in addition to these assignment, we were also delegated the task of completing nightly reflections of an online reading. I did not find this portion of the course favorable because I often could not fine the correlation between the reflection and the major writing assignments. Also, in comes cases I felt like the reflections were a distraction from the major writing assignments. In my opinion, the time spent on the reflections could have been spent going deeper into the major writing assignments and the core of the course objective. Moreover, I personally don’t believe that the reflections increased my knowledge of literature or writing …show more content…
During this writing I was supposed to explain my educational experiences and what impact that have had on my development as a person in this assignment I was given the freedom to critique education as a whole and express the best form of education. Within my essay I decided to break down the meaning of education and prose the question of what true education is? In my opinion everything is and educational experience and education and a whole should not be boxed into a degree or class. In fact, I did not refer to any in class experience at all because I believe that I learned more impactful lessons from outside experiences. In reflection, I now see that my original piece was extremely scattered. This caused the main point to be difficult to recognize and unclear. However, this assignment deeply increased my ability to supply details since I was discussing my past and some aspects of my childhood. Furthermore, the details within my unsubmitted first draft were double the page limit for this assignment. Additionally, this assignment set my footing for the rest of the course and pushed me to become more comfortable within detailed