1. My writing process followed the assignments we were given: write rough draft, edit rough draft, and complete rough draft. The most difficult part of this procedure was probably editing. After looking over Dr. deGravelles' comments, I realized there were quite a large amounts of errors in my paper. In the next few days I had to work hard to compensate for my mistakes. Though it was a difficult process, it still proved the most useful and productive part. However, the transition from edited draft to complete wasn't useful to me. I had cleaned up a lot of the problems during the editing process. The main two corrections I made in this part were connecting the paragraphs smoothly and creating a strong conclusion. Lastly, I think you've done fine in preparing students for this assignment. The due dates are nicely spread out with understandable amounts of homework to fill.
2. I received a fair amount of good, informational feedback. My fellow peers helped strengthen my paper in terms of word choice and sentence fluency. Matthew Garrett specifically pointed out I was missing a source (Thanks!). Both Dr. deGravelles and my classmates played a big role in my editing process; I used their advice in my paper.
3. I believe it is safe to say the word choice in my paper is strong. Ever since I was young, I loved using big, sophisticated words. But at those ages, I tended to use them incorrectly and ruin the sentence fluency. However, I am not so confident in my ideas. After talking about the disadvantages of social media, I began talking about the advantages. During this process, I started losing ideas. I felt as though I needed the amount of disadvantages to be equivalent to the amount of advantages. For this reason, I could have put in some useless filler unknowingly.
4. Nope, nothing much to say here.
2/18 - 60min., 2/19 - 60min., 2/20 - 30min., 2/21 - 60min., 2/22 - 45min.
Total - 255min., pp. 1 - 57 (Nervous Conditions), (Paper)
I agree, I definitely think the peer edit was very useful and critical to my revising and editing. I also really like how Dr. D spread the dates out to give us more than enough time to construct our outlines, drafts, and write our paper.
ReplyDeleteI agree Akbar. Editing is always the hardest because when you're writing a paper, it's hard to find your own mistakes and that's why I enjoy the peer reviews.
ReplyDeleteAs usual I completely agree with all of your points made. I do believe that editing is one of the hardest things to accomplish, but for me its the rough draft. Editing isn't usually as much of a headache for me because I have peer reviews, family, and tutors edit my paper to pick up any thing I didn't catch from my own and my peers edits.
ReplyDeleteFinally, I too agree that both my sentence fluency and voice of my paper changed after the help of my peers. Before my paper sounded too formal, but using the advise from my peers I found a common medium. All of their help was integrated into my paper as well. All in all great post. (p.s. he reason this comment is so late is for some reason when I pasted my comment from word it didn't summit properly and I didnt catch it until know, so this is suppose to be my comment for the 29th of January)