Lessons Learned From My Peers

You will exchange your drafts with your group mates and, using the feedback rubric from Unit 3.2. (page 33-35), assess their essays. Remember to be polite, correct in your judgments, and helpful – you can notice the things that might help your peers to write an outstanding work. Read each essay carefully at least three times: at first you get acquainted with your peer’s work; during the second reading your check up for the structural precision; use the third time to ensure that you have noticed everything and provided constructive feedback on anything that is unclear to you; highlighted parts of the essay that are not specific; pointed out where more details seem necessary or, just the other way round, the information appears

I, over the semester, have grown in both literacy and critical thinking. A direct comment from Mr. Gish on the first essay I wrote for the class was “Nice reading!” to this sentence in the essay “This continues to show that people in poverty aren’t charity cases, but rather they are human beings.”. This comment, along with others, shows me that I am capable to effectively write in one of the worst essays that I have written. The reason for this growth was the support of both my friends and family. My father would help me with grammatical errors and final revision decisions in some essays. This growth happened slowly with a lot of effort put towards it. An example from my first essay is “First and foremost, Gordon Park’s imagery throughout his composition.” this is the topic sentence to a short paragraph in the beginning of

This is due to the students not being very thoroughly with reviewing. As a writer, I lack in certain area such as clarification and details. My classmate lack in certain areas too such as being able to criticize my work or they aren’t as knowledgeable as I thought. For our peer reviews, it is up to the students to rely on each other as this is more of a group effort. I have done these in the past so, I’m quite use to peer reviews. However, this doesn’t cut it. Every response I came across are mostly “yea I think it’s pretty good” or “your essay is better than my.” These responses are generally useless as they don’t offer much help. Based on the responses I have received, I concluded that my classmates aren’t really helpful. When a person is serving as a peer reviewer, they should be offering me, questions, suggestions, and insights. With these offerings, I can begin to reassert my work. It implies to me that I must find an outside source to appeal

Throughout this semester we have had to write many types of essays. Although this is a college English class there is still room for improvement. I made much improvement during the semester of the class. I was able to identify my weaknesses. I learned how to make improvements to the areas I was having problems in. Although each essay we did was different I was able to begin with one essay and throughout the semester turn it into two other essays. I was able to change my style of writing to fit the type of audience I was working with. I will continue to work on my writing and keep improving it.

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

Ms. Bearden is an English teacher and co-founder of the Ron Clark Academy in Atlanta, Georgia where she has taught in grade levels from kindergarten to 8th grade. In her book, Crash Course: The Life Lessons My Students Taught Me, she discusses about her life of teaching a majority of African American scholars and how they completely improved her life. Each chapter is labeled carefully and precisely to give meaning in the classroom setting. The chapters that caught my attention most were called Magic, Recovery, and Tenacity.

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

I remember when I first came to the Wilkes University, one of my edifier (?) (Friend, teacher, mother) told me "Don’t judge your class in the beginning, judge your class at the end of course”. In the beginning of my classes I was very nervous about how to write an essay. However, I believe my writing skills has effectively improved. To be honest, English 101 wasn’t an easy class for me in the beginning. College writing is entirely different from high school writing. I always have trouble with grammar when I write English essays, and it’s harder for me to learn and improve my skills in a short amount of time.

A significant challenge that I faced that I thought I might not accomplish was in sophomore year. I believed I would not be able to pass my science class. I was almost failing the entire year but the last quarter was the worst. The teacher made a huge test that would help anyone that was almost failing and I studied every night until the test which was for about a month and a half. I was sure I would still end up failing because I wasn’t sure about many of the topics we had discussed. On testing day, we had time before the test to study even more and I had one of my friends test me with flashcards that I created; there was over one hundred of them. While taking the test, I was freaking out and ended up not answering some of the questions because

My parents love reading letters and essays that get to the point of what I am writing about. Another thing that I improved on is that it was based on a central idea or thesis that is clearly stated. The thesis was that it is surprising how much the Memorial Union has shaped my experience at Iowa State. One of the criticism that was in the feedback was that I did not explain the map of the Memorial Union. I expect that alone will raise the grade of my revision to a certain amount. I speak to my parent in a formal way so not much changed in the way I addressed them in my letter. One thing about the lecture program, in this revision, is that I have examples great lecturers that have a spoken here. I did this so my parents can know the type of people that speak and get them more interested. I did not want to be vague because I felt like it would have been an uninteresting letter to read. The description of the programs are even more clearer than then my original letter that I turned in earlier this school year. The reason why I want to improve on the descriptions of the program is because I wanted my parents to be more engaged and hooked into my

As a student, it’s been an experiences. Over the course; I have grown and learned more on different skills of writing. I been a student at Colorado Christian University for about a year. One specific experiences that I’d recall, was when I had to write a letter to a co-worker. I thought I communicated well, however the feedback that I received told me the opposite. The co-worker told me that I had broken English in my writing. He told me that he was confused on what I was trying to explain. Even though what he said was true, I was upset. I didn 't realize then, that it was important for his feedback. I had taken many English courses, and it taught me that in order to become a writer, was to write. One way that helped me improve and overcome my weakness of writing was feedback from my professors and other students. The next step was to find ways to keep organized when I began to write. In spite of all my mistakes and weakness as a writer, communication was important through writing, because we have to use strong academic language to write. To point out that these are just a few I listed as a reflection on my writing skills.

I simply wrote one draft without using any feedback from adults or peers. If I decided to use feedback on my piece, I know it would have been more beneficial to my development as a writer. On this piece I earned an 85%, in which I wasn’t satisfied with. From this, I was allowed to revise my piece, allowing me to go in depth into my writing to earn a better grade. Also, before submitting my revised essay, I asked my mom to read over my work to see if it would raise my grade. She gave me a few valuable pieces of advice that helped raise the grade on my essay to a 90%. From the Thematic Unit, I learned to improve my writing process to prepare myself for the future. At the end of the year, I was told to write my own essay about William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night novel, using my own writing process to be successful. My effective writing process included writing a first draft and completing self-assessment afterwards. The first step of my process helped me understand how my writing could develop into a stronger piece. After self-assessment, I wrote a second draft and had a peer review my work. Finally, I made a third and final draft in order to present the best version of my writing. As shown from the Soliloquy Essay, my writing process is

I graduated from NHTI with my associates degree in Business Administration in December of 2016. After taking this past semester off to work and build my bank account, I am now looking to further my education by earning at least a Bachelor's degree in Accounting. Transferring to a new school will be a great opportunity to build life skills, meet new people, and advance my education at a school that will help me reach my career goals.

Waiting in line to go through customs I didn 't want to think about all all the things I would have to do. Support myself financially, find a place to live, figure out how to start college. It all seemed overwhelming. I immigrated on my own to US when I was seventeen. The transition was difficult, and I considered returning back to India. Even though it would have been easier to return, staying provided better opportunities. As I grappled with my new environment and struggled to acclimate. Two experiences played a pivotal role in shaping my character. First, the support I received from family and friends. The second, my work with adolescent youth. Through these I understood the importance of support and the joy of providing it. The

Learning to revise and diagnose errors with the help of my peers or my professor is something that will greatly help the quality of my writing. Everytime there's a peer review after an essay done, My peers helped me many of grammar mistake and there's always a comment below my essay tells me what I did well and what I need to progress. When I had many questions or problems about my essay, I just went to office hour to ask help without any shyness. After I got a feedback from my teacher Shanna. It's more easier to find out what did I miss for my essay? What I need to add more to make my paper sounds more interesting? Is my paragraph too short or too long? and etc. Therefore, the helped from my classmates and teacher could being able to make appropriate and effective revisions to my work. Not every paper is perfect, but know your mistake and constant revisions must be constantly made to create a product that is high quality. However, I realized adjustment is an extremely important part of learning and