#11

in my writing i tend to have a bunch of run on sentence, repeat the same thing in other paragraphs, and having a bunch of ideas not placed in correct order. These three errors I think are my main errors in the paper and they cause a lot of unorganized ideas to be all of over the place. So for the future I would have to spend more time on my papers and really look for the errors and organized my paper much better to recieve a better grade. But at times it gets hard to think how you can anaylze a visual to 5-4 pages, thats why I tend to repeat sentences i have said earlier in the paper.

#10

In a way I think peer review is effective but also feel that it isnt helpful. It can be effective in a way because sometimes the reviewers know what their talking about but then again sometimes they dont. Thats where the less effective in peer reviewing comes in. The reviewers just give us feedback on about what they think should be fixed. When really there is other major errors that have to be fixed, we just dont know which ones. How it can be improved? I really don't know. I feel that for us to get better at our papers and our writing methods, we should be peer reviewing with a person who is professional or has much more experience in writing then some students.I think my strenghts as a peer reviewer would be looking out for the grammar and repeated sentences. When I give feedback I like to tell give an example of how the paragraphs should be organized. But nothing really else. For my weakness, I think finding a thesis and knowing the main reason why the writer wrote the paper. And also finding out the tone of the paper, sometimes reading it silently I cant really specify the writers tone.Like I said I do find it helpful in some ways but then not really. Because you have students who know how to peer review, check for errors, tell you if the paper is good when really it isn't in a teachers point of view. So it could be helpful but then not really in my opinion. I dont think it matters with small or large groups of students, just matters on what the student tells you about the paper and if it really is helpful. The time limit for peer review is fine, its an appropriate amount of time. We get enough time to talk about everyone's paper and recieve feedback on it.

#9

Out of the three assignments we have worked on, I found the advertisement essay difficult. It was very hard to write a 3-4 paper so that the audience can visualize the advertisement without taking a glance at it. I thought it would be one, two, three, and I'm done but I noticed I had spent a lot of time on this essay. And when we usually do peer review so we can recieve feedback, that really didn't help me for this paper. I had to have someone really look over it and get better feedback so I can improve my paper. The easiest essay so far in this class, would probably be the first essay, Literacy narrative. Even though I recieved a horrible grade on it, I still think I had many details and facts for this paper. At first when I wrote this paper I thought I was the only person to write it the way I did, butI wasn't and kind of felt relieved. The peer review group I had then really did well on giving me feedback and reminding me of what needs to be added into my paper. I think I found it easy because it was like a personal experience, so I just jotted down what came to mind for this specific topic. Im not sure why this is so but I think because I was never assigned to visualize an advertisement paper from 3-4 pages. So to really be descriptive and detailed was very difficult to make into 3-4 pages.