Peer reviews can be extremely helpful or very disappointing. Some advantages are that you are able to get helpful criticism on your paper and be given pointers on things you would have never noticed or thought there was anything wrong with it. Another advantage is that who ever is doing the peer review can check your grammar behind you just in case you looked over something. But with almost everything there are disadvantages. Sometimes instead of giving actual criticism who ever is doing the review will only right compliments and sometimes they are so blatant you can tell they did not read the paper. Another mix of a disadvantage and an advantage is that the peer reviewer could tell you your whole paper that you spent all night working on is horrible and needs a redo which crushes your soul but the bright side is that you'll get a chance to redo it before it's graded.
Are these myths bias or are they true? In Irvin's essay, "What Is “Academic” Writing?" he outlined and debunked 7 myths that most high school and college students were made to believe as they evolved as writers. The Myths Are: Myth #1: The “Paint by Numbers” myth Myth #2: Writers only start writing when they have everything figured out Myth #3: Perfect first drafts Myth #4: Some got it; I don’t—the genius fallacy Myth #5: Good grammar is good writing Myth #6: The Five Paragraph Essay Myth #7: Never use “I” Most of these myth's I have personally never heard of but I just can't agree with myth #1. The myth is described as "writers believe they must perform certain steps in a particular order to write “correctly.” Rather than being a lock-step linear process,-". Maybe it's just me being stubborn but I've always been taught to follow an evidence triangle or some type of layout when I wrote essays and it made it a little more easier an...
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