After watching, “No One Writes Alone”, the required video, I understand the process of peer review better. From past experiences with peer review, I found that people tend to only correct the grammar portions of the work instead of actually analyzing the paper as a whole. Classmates tended to not really care about the statement you were trying to make or how the paper flowed. I like the peer view for the fact that it helps me improve as a writer and improves my thought process as well. Although, I dislike how some people tend to criticize your view-point instead of not focusing on what they are supposed to do. I also dislike how some people can come of overly negative to you. I feel peer review should come off as friendly as possible. In general,
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 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.
INSTRUCTIONS: Peer Reviews will be conducted in class discussion forums during Week 7. Be sure to review the Lecture and the Discussion area for additional details and guidance. Please complete the following steps below, returning a separate peer review worksheet for each of the two classmates whose papers you review.
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.
Moreover, I found in-class peer review very helpful during the revision process. For example, I was very unclear on my AP solution part, but after one on one in class peer review, I received many helpful comments from my peers on how I can develop my points. Below is a picture of my in-class peer review comment and how I revised. This is a picture of my AP draft 2. In this draft, I was still struggling on how to elaborate more on my solution and I was not sure about if my claim was strong enough. However, after having a face to face conversation with my peer, I was able to discuss any concerns I had.
Throughout the progression of this course I learned countless things concerning my writing. {Simkin, M. G., Crews, J. M., & Groves, M. J. (2012). While it’s there’s a many amounts of things ‘ve learned throughout the course, there are several things I‘ve learned which include the step by step process, including the correct usage of grammar and properly proofreading my work before I turn it in. I found out i had a major problem with my punctuation usage and insufficient when it came my periods and commas. I’ve invested some time writing through grammarly and other helpful sites to improve my writing skills. I appreciate the assistance and help I received from Mrs. C
In the paper on “An Essay On Writing” written by an Anonymous author he gives a reason for rejecting good writing. The author states that “the misapprehension that is necessary to write well in order to communicate. This is utter nonsense”. What he is saying is that there is no linking between writing and communicating. They are two opposite things. Just because you're good at communicating doesn’t mean you’re always great at writing, but you might be the total opposite. The author had two good points to back up his arguments one was he did a test with three different people. One of the three was controlled. What he did is he “gave each subject a pencil and paper and commanded him to write. After “three minutes and forty-seven seconds,”
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
Hi this is a writer's notebook for my teacher, Now I don't know if you have a ELA teacher that makes you do this but I do so let's get into it. At first i didn’t really know what to write about… Scratch that I never knew what to write about. The only way I am writing this now is because I thought that “Hey if I can’t think of anything and I hate doing this let's write about how I go this idea”. So yeah that's what happened in my head and now my teacher is reading this thinking to herself that this isn’t a writer's notebook! But, I asked her what I could write about and she said that I could do a moment in my life. So here it is a moment in my life writing this prompt. Now after this I still have to do another and actually as I just wrote that I just figured out that I have a 57 in ELA and now with 2 more prompts
Coming into college, I have had experience in writing analytical essays, research papers, and creative writing projects. For two years in a row I had the privilege to be taught by the same honor’s English teacher—Mr. McConahay. Mr. McConahay constantly stressed the importance of writing. He spent the past two years preparing us for college level writing because he knows that in college, writing is a big part of one’s English class. We wrote about American citizenship and what it meant to be a citizen of the world as well as a citizen of one’s community. Mr. McConahay valued structure and a good thesis the most out of anything. This writing was very difficult for me because my mind works more creatively than it does analytically. Academic writing has always been my weakest attribute when it came to schooling. I would much rather write a paper full of opinions or made up people rather than write a research paper. Though his class was hard for me, I noticed a difference in my writing as it improved over the course of the years. Mr.
After I graduated from college three years ago and decided to take myself seriously as a writer, my bookshelf changed drastically as well as the way I viewed my work.
The peer review process was critical towards the improvement of my work. For the first artifact, which was the standard essay, I drafted the essay and received feedback on my thesis via email from my professor Dr. Addcox as well as my roommate. The changes suggested to me clarified my paper and strengthened my argument. It was in my second artifact however that I realized the importance of getting an outside opinion on my work. For this assignment I had to create a new storyline for a video game we played in class. The storyline we created had to be a branching narrative and under the pressure of developing my own storyline my storyline was not a proper branching narrative. After developing my first draft, I had a collaborative conference with my professor (Dr. Addcox), where I received feedback which helped me incorporate a branching narrative structure into my idea. I then had a comprehensive peer review session with a classmate, which allowed me to refine my storyline and improve upon details.
Peer editing made me more open to suggestions and let me receive feedback on what I had written. Normally, I would write my rough draft last minute and turn it in to my teacher as a final draft, thinking it was golden, because of that it resulted in a low score. When I saw all the suggestions and correction on my draft, it made me feel ashamed of how poorly I did, knowing I could’ve done way better. It opened my eyes and insight to how others read and interpreted my writings.
The peer editing is to correct your paper from person who is in the same age or level and write their opinion about it. That can help you to have other view from someone’s in your level. It was my first editing experience. I learned about something new in writing skills, which is how to edit other paper, and how to give them your opinion. Also, when I see other person paper, it helps me to think widely and gain more ideas about how to be a good writer also whom I can read my paper as critic to it. Moreover, it helps me to think correctly to give right advice to other person. Editing peer gives me chance to participate with classmate how she thought. Moreover, it was as a practice to my grammar when I correct my partner paper. I edited two papers
“Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.” On the first day of school when I walked into this classroom, little did I how great of an impact this class would have on my life. Not only did I greatly improve my writing, reading, thinking, and speaking skills, but as a human being overall. Despite all the long, sleepless nights, I am grateful for what this class has provided me. This class has shown me that individuals always have room for improvement, and this improvement can be reached through hard work and dedication. With all the knowledge I received from this class, from individualism to the horrors of indifference, I hope to not let this information stray within my mind, but to share it amongst