When I found out that we were going to be reviewed by our peers for the Doc 1 assignment, I became a little apprehensive about it. After reading the feedback I feel more at ease with the process. I feel that peer review for different subjects helps you become more knowledgeable about the subject. It also gives you feedback from more sets of eyes. Lets you see mistakes that you did not see before. I feel that with college students and in this writing class, it is a very valuable tool for us to utilize. It will help us all to become the best possible writers that we can become. It will also help us to become better critical thinkers, pushing us to research more and ask the questions.
Tim
Hi Tim. I can relate to the apprehension you felt when told that we would be evaluating each others writing but I quickly welcomed it because I had a hard time deciding on the direction I wanted the paper to go in. Although I did the research, I was still on the fence. What helped me was reading the blog posts of our classmates and gauging where I thought their papers may lead. That allowed me to take another look at the research and look at in a different way. I pretty much didn't want to talk about the same topic from the same angle as others. Making that decision I was happy that the class would get the chance to read and comment before turning in for grading. It gave me the opportunity to see if I was making any sense in writing my argument as well as getting others to see my point.
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with you. This class has been a really great learning experience for me. I was also a little apprehensive at first about the peer evaluation, but after experiencing it, I thought it was a great process.
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