Learning Outcome #4

Reviewing my efforts to peer review my classmate Layne’s Project 2 essay, I gave her lots of feedback. When making peer review comments, whatever comes to mind, I put them down. So I included suggestions and things I liked and thought she should keep. When I am writing my essay, I always notice that I tend to doubt what is essential and unimportant. I also like to include specific and global comments as both are useful. When phrasing my comments, I try to be straightforward and make sure it sounds like my opinion. I choose to do this so it does not sound like I am demanding the writer to do something. It is there to take my feedback. However, this is something I am still working on. Throughout the semester, I have learned the importance of word choice and how it can completely change the meaning of something. Another thing I love to do is add questions that invigorate the writer’s thinking so they might add more to their ideas. I do this when writing my essays. It helps me guide my idea process and makes it easier for me. Over the semester, I have learned to make more comments on the author’s ideas rather than on sentence structure and grammar. Including the concept of global revisions and that there are so many aspects to revision. I now break up my paragraphs into sections by paragraph structure when revising my paper. So I will break it up by introducing ideas, transitioning into a quote, analysis, and transitioning into the following quote or paragraph. This way, I revise each section deeply. When I try editing by looking at the whole paper at once, I get overwhelmed by all the revisions I could make. I am still working on my transitions into quotes. I do not think I was adequately taught this in high school.