ChApTeR 9 rEfLeCtIoN
I found this chapter to be most helpful. It really spoke to me about how to correctly and successfully review another peer's paper.
There is a lot to be said about who is reading your paper. If I get pointers from my English teacher, I am definitely going to take their advice. If I get advice from a peer with a 30% in the class, I'm probably not going to listen to them as much. However, I will always take every ounce of advice into account when I am editing my paper.
One thing I've learned from my experiences is that it is best to be both critical and constructive. Absolutely avoid being mean with your statements, but if you see something wrong, then definitely say something, because it's best they hear it from you than from the teacher after grading. It should also be constructive. For instance, I personally like to tell the person two things right that they did for every one thing I find wrong or that could use improvement.
I like your strategy of keeping the critical comments in check! I agree that it sometimes is hard to take a classmate's advice because they have no qualifications--all they did was enroll in the class. I tend to ignore classmate's advice more than I probably should but that is something I'm going to work on.
ReplyDeleteI am glad that someone found this helpful. I am on the other side of the fence and didn't find it all that useful to me. I feel as though I was just reviewing old stuff.
ReplyDeleteI totally agree that no one should take writing advice from someone with a terrible grade in the class. That would be the dumbest thing ever. Also I really like your critique style. I do the same thing.
ReplyDeleteThat's awesome that you were able to find this chapter extremely helpful to your experience as a writer. I didn't necessarily agree, but the one piece I did find helpful was the example questions to ask during peer review because they were really detailed and probably would be beneficial to the writing process. Your point about critical and constructive is really important because I myself used to have trouble taking criticism, but quality peer review sessions have helped me accept these criticisms better!
ReplyDeleteA lot of people just found this as review, but I'm glad both of us see it as helpful because this info can help everyone become better reviewers. That can only benefit all of us and also having any criticism on our work is helpful whether it's by the worst student or the best teacher. Different point of views and mind sets can be tremendously helpful in a variety of situations.
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