Feedback Flaws

I agree with Bruce Ballenger because people who write freely with errors are more concern on the topic. When I write an essay there are always errors and it makes me feel like I am not smart enough or not at a level where I should be.

328). Moreover, the research claims that error correction has serious side effects for learners as it consumes too much of the lesson time which could be better utilized doing other things (p. 329). To defend these claims, Truscott analyzed groups of students in an L1 writing class. The results showed that the groups that received error correction did not improve and the amount and style of feedback they received had no effect on their writing ability indicating that error correction within L1 language learning is ineffective (p. 330). This deduction led to analysis of research from error correction in L2 writing and this came to similar conclusions: Traditional error correction does not improve learners’ writing (p.

To many people, writing is either considered a task, or an activity. There are also different types of writing for people to enjoy. In Josh Keller’s “Studies Explore Wether the Internet Makes Students Better Writer”, Keller describes how the internet has made students far better writers. He also describes how many students have described their dislike for academic writing but prefer their own personal blogging and/or journaling. This essay describes why struggling students often fail to write effectively because they find academic writing hard because they are not able to put their own thoughts and experiences into their essay. The idea of this essay was to describe the problems with students writing and the possible solutions for the problem. Keller mentions that the solution, that is not being pursued, is to combine academic writing with personal writing. He describes how many students write far better in their own personal writing and that these student’s personal writing

Ballenger an accurate statement when he said that “Most of us have lurking in our past some high priest of good grammar whose angry scribbling occupied the margins of our paper.” Most teachers overlooked what we had written and just looked for grammatical errors. This always made me feel like my writing was never good enough. This discouraged when it came to writing papers because I always felt like I was just writing to have my essay covered in errors that I needed to fix. After getting so many red markings on my essays I always questioned my writing. In my head I could not figure out what I was doing wrong and I did not know how to fix my writing. It became really stressful to write essays and I always dreaded when

As an American we have the right to exercise freedom of speech and I believe that freedom of speech is one of the most valuable rights we have, and I have not been able to exercise this right for the last 18 years of my life. I am most fortunate to be able to exercise this right in my English 1102 class during peer reviews. In my opinion, people learn best by teaching than they do by listening to the teacher and I believe peer reviews work the same way. When I was engaged in peer views, I learned more from my own writing than I ever have been reading my own reviews. I feel this is true because we are engaging in reading over another classmate’s paper, and offering our advice that could potentially improve their essays. For our first peer review our teacher gave us a list of guidelines to go by in order to do the most efficient job in peer review. It

Making sure your sentences are correct and error free is the most critical process in writing. Great ways to make sure your paper is solid is to re-read your essay. Having another set of eyes work on your essay is also a great way to find easily overlooked errors. The quickly fixed and missed errors add up, and end up costing you. While proofreading search for certain things in punctuation such as run-on sentences. Scan the essay for weak words such as good, a lot, things, and very. Proofreading my paper benefits me on everything I write. Employers might overlook resumes, when potential employees have constant errors on their application.

I need my paper to be easy to read, so I applied all these tools. The more I revised my writing, the more grammatical errors I corrected. After the first draft correction, I learn there were words I took for granted and used them in my essay that had a completely different meaning. I made generalized statements and did not attach much evidence to support most of the claims I noted in my writing. To improve my writing, I search the Internet to note other people’s remarks about these essays. Since I did not want to be embarrassed in front of my classmate for use of grammar, I had to read more to write more clearly. I did not like the peer review because it will allow my classmates to see my grammatical errors and would think of me to be a horrible English language person. But because of these peer reviews, I tried to make my text simple so that everyone could read and understand my writing.

Without having someone else to look over your work, it is hard to realize what you are doing wrong. When someone else reads your paper, especially having not read it before, they can easily identify your mistakes, whether it be punctuation or spelling errors. I strongly believe that when peer review is taken advantage of and used correctly, peer reviews are extremely helpful, but, unfortunately not everyone takes it serious and gives you the feedback that can really help you fix your essay.

Lastly, self-evaluation is a key component to writing an effective essay. Even though I was able to have student feedback for my essays; self-evaluation is important for me to be able to determine my strengths and weaknesses in my writing. After composing each essay I was required to compose a self-evaluation. The evaluations describe what I consider the strong points in the essay, and were I felt I still needed to

Peer review has always been a key part of learning and teaching irrespective of any language or classroom. It adds more value to the process of peer learning as it has been acknowledged to be a useful tool for collaborative learning (Falchikov, 2005; Van den Berg et al., 2006). Peer review has been put into use for a wide range of subjects and by a large number of practitioners. This is a formative process where learners evaluate the works produced by their peers for a better understanding of the concept which eventually enhances the output of the final product (Somerville, 1993; Topping et al., 2000). Elbow (1968) and Murray (1969) have suggested peer review to be implemented as a common practice in the writing classrooms since it helps learners

When you finish, reread the essay to check for all of the points above, and then proofread it to be sure your work does not contain errors in grammar or spelling.

However, there were some things I needed to work on. When it was time for class peer review checks, I received the same criticism for each of my essays. Especially, for my first essay, that I though was perfect. My peers, and my professor

What frightens me about a class that includes peer reviewing is not me reviewing others’ papers, but rather, their reviews of me. Because of this, I did not try to be too strict or too easy, and I tried to guide to guide my fellow peers along with questions instead of telling them a certain way would be better. At the beginning of my process in reviewing my peers’ papers, I decided it would be helpful to point out mostly grammar mistakes and syntax. For example, in John Silva’s essay, “A Fool with Good Intentions,” most of my focus was on correcting grammar although I briefly mentioned structure and meaning suggestions. The main criticism I had was that:

The peer revision it’s some help for the student to improve in their writing. The purpose of this revision is being used to determine an academic paper’s suitability for publication. In this semester we work in four peer revision essays which were Narrative essay, evaluation argument essay and compare/contrast essay and this one that is reflection essay. During class we change our essay with one classmate and answer the questions of the peer revision so we learn too, to identified the errors that could be occur in an essay. We help each and now we can now a different opinion about our essays with the opinion of our classmate.

A writer must know that writing can be very social. The seventh core concept of writing tells writers that they should always think that their writing will be read by someone. This helps writers with having an idea who their audience will be, but also because writers have others read their work for feedback. The next core concept talks about how important it is to not fixing any errors as you write. It’s better to let out your thoughts as they come, and then once you are completely done to go back to see if you are missing anything or are able to rearrange parts. The last thing you should fix are the grammatical errors. Whether you believe that some forms of writing has to be objective, writing will always have a voice, and the ninth core concept tells us this. The tenth and last core concept states that having a few minor grammatical errors will not drastically affect your place if it satisfies the criteria, and that an error free paper does not mean it will receive the highest grade. By acknowledging your most common errors and mastering the different components of writing will help you become a good