Sunday, February 24, 2013
How to Workshop your Peers paper
Throughout this reading I read about how to critique a paper and the thought process you should go through when reading other people's work. My first impression was "yeah tell me something I don't know". The reason I thought that was because I understand that I'm not the teacher and I am not the one giving the grade instead I am giving my opinion and help clean up the grammatical errors I notice. The second part of the reading which talked about things like: where you should put your comments, how you should show where the writer may have made an error or where you think the writer could clarify a statement he/she has made. Now that part I don't think is to serious because if you explain the changes you've made then it shouldn't matter where you put a comment as long as you make it clear to writer that you had an issue about a specific part of their paper and why.
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I had the same impression when I started reading it. How many papers have we proofed in high school? We aren't teachers or paid to do it, so why be label as someone who chopped up and spit out a peer's paper? After reading it, I am glad that we now somewhat know how to proofread at the college level. Professors are going to grade at a college level, and we want the same level of critique from our peers so that we can do college-level work.
ReplyDeleteI agree that learning why workshopping is important really wasn't too helpful, but the second half about where to put comments and what to put was helpful. For example, using full sentences rather than brief notes and that abbreviations are helpful to an extent but not if that is all that you write.
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