Although I wasn't able to be in class today, I did have someone do the peer review on my paper. Lets just say its going to be a really long weekend!!! I have lots of things to fix (as usual). The biggest problem that I have is making my thoughts clear to others. I say what I think I'm saying, and the reader hears something totally different. Or I don't use proper English. My sentences are usually either run-ons or fragments. I'm just really not good at writing papers. Sometimes it gets really frustrating. Our first paper I revised 7 times- no kidding!!! The bad part is that even after 7 I still got a lot of things wrong. So, yeah, its going to be a really long weekend. The peer review does help because then at least I know what I'm doing wrong & can try to fix it.
Were my comments helpful to my fellow writer? I really hope so. Reading is something that I can do well. Explaining myself is not something that I do well. I do think my comments were understood though. Hopefully, this process helps us out. I think that it does.
The comments that were helpful to me were which arguments in my paper were unclear. That also seemed to be the most helpful part of my critique. This will allow both of us time to clarify and revise our papers before we have to turn them in. All in all, a very good process.
I'm glad that you found someone to read this, but unfortunately, the reflection was to be over the in-class revision workshop, so this post won't count for credit. I really wish you would come to class or drop the class instead of attempting to do all the work from a distance. They do offer online classes, but mine is not an online course, so it will be impossible to do well at this level of interaction.
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