I did find that as a reviewer of peer reviews, I strengthened my understanding of many bullet requirements which allowed me to apply it to my writing. As the writer of peer reviews, my reviewers were able to point sentences that did…
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…
Thoroughly reading writing related to what you are working on will help you to write with stronger technique. This will also give you a sense of direction and prevent you from feeling stressed or lost when writing your…
The debate on the importance of Liberal Arts is dear to my heart because of the impact my high school Humanities class had on me. Because of this, I had no difficulty forming an opinion in the debate and seeing the flaws in arguments against Liberal Arts. However, analyzing the flaws in an argument I agree with was harder than expected, but with the use of rhetorical analysis I was able to see the strong and weak points in the article. This allowed me to create a strong response that portrays my opinion in relation to the article’s arguments. Peer review was helpful because the process brought to light multiple grammar issues.…
Imagine a young girl, about three year’s old sitting in her wooden rocking chair surrounded by picture books. They are sprawled all over the floor, and here she sits and “reads” aloud to her stuffed animals. But, she doesn’t know how to read, so she makes the story up based on the pictures she sees in the book. Now imagine the same young girl, now she is five years old. She sits on a chair with crayons of every color, coloring books, and paper spread across the kitchen table.…
There are good writers and there are good writers who work hard to become better. Mrs. Fiske, my English teacher junior and senior year of high school always told me that I was one of the best writers in my class but I could always be better. Spelling has always been one of my strong suits and I always get bothered when people can’t spell simple words. I’m pretty good at writing essays but I do not enjoy writing them at all.…
Tips for Critiquing Other People’s Writing Being a critique is not an easy task. You have to be really fair and precise. You always have to be honest and objective about the writing and you cannot give the writer false hopes. However, if you are a beginner then here are a few tips for you to help you with critiquing other people’s writing – • Take the task seriously – It’s true that you do not need some special abilities or have to be an expert to review other’s writing. What you have to do is, you have to take the task seriously and tolerate it.…
Proofreading means examining your text carefully to find and correct typographical errors and mistakes in grammar, style, and spelling. Here are some tips. Before You Proofread When You Proofread When You Want to Learn More Before You Proofread Be sure you've revised the larger aspects of your text.…
The many skills that I have acquired include in-depth research, more through drafts, fluidity of my paper, and better outlines. These skills will help me writing in the future because I need good in-depth research, fluidity, and more through drafts to have a good starting point and will give me a better idea on what I need to add. The most effective thing we did in class was peer reviewing others essays because I got to see different writing styles and different ideas on how to incorporate my evidence better or different choice of words. Even though I have developed good skills for the future, I still have struggles in my writing. This class has helped me to recognize what I struggle with in writing so in the future I can recognize it and improve on my weaknesses.…
Writing can be a struggle for a lot of people, including me. High school showed me that I clearly struggle with specific parts of creating a paper, or a short story. Like most people in high school I was given complements on my work, and some specific parts of my paper to work on by my high school instructors. I always had a great topic, or I thought my story was great. There is a similar problem I had then, and still have now.…
English Support. Those words haunted me throughout my adjusting semester of eighth grade. From A’s to C’s and D’s, my English grades converted into flashing red warning signs of my need to get help. My enormous ego and stubbornness stood in the way; they didn’t step aside to let me see that the English Support class was what I needed. I got this, I thought.…
I think writing is a process of questioning myself constantly over a period of time. As a writer, I always write something that I consider as clearly and explicitly deliver my message. However, my peers told me that it is not the cases through peer review section in class. They reveal many problems of my essay in the point of views of readers, and I, for this reason, get to know what my essay really look like by receiving a lot of very helpful criticism.…
“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.” ― Thomas Mann. Writing is a subject that is different for everyone. In my opinion if I could write about a topic I choose and I am passionate about I know my papers would be interesting to read. On the other hand, I when I am given a topic to write about I think it is harder to make the paper interesting and enjoyable to read.…
I have always considered my relationship with writing to be very insignificant. Although I enjoy spending time verbally expressing my thoughts and feelings to others, it becomes difficult when these thoughts and feelings are expressed through writing. Throughout my adolescent years, I would often receive feedback for my writing given by the teacher in the form of a grade. Being unable to effectively organize my thoughts and ideas into words and sentences, I would feel reluctant to continue writing confidently whenever I received an undesirable grade.…
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…