The peer review process was a big help to me. I have always been taught to take constructive criticism as a blessing even if I don't agree with what they have told me. It allowed me to get a view of how others received my paper and if it was effective or not. Sometimes I would get comments telling me that I had them hooked the entire time and that I had a good paper but other times I would get comments telling me to change 'this', add a comma, get rid of this sentence, or that I had a weak argument and vocabulary. Honestly it made me feel good when people would tell me those things because they aren't telling me these things to hurt me but to help me. Telling me that my paper is good is not constructive and won't help. peer reviews also gave me a chance to see how others write and to use their writing styles to improve my own. Seeing the mistakes or the flow of the other students papers allowed me to make out the do's and don'ts for my own paper.
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...
Great post! Peer review also was a big help to me because I was getting feedback from my classmates.
ReplyDeletePeer reviews were good because like you said they give you other peoples perspective on your paper. Peer reviews helped me with either more ideas or like you said again that you need to add this or take this away and its great because you don't notice it when you read your paper multiple times.
ReplyDeleteI also feel the same! The process helped me a lot to take criticism and to better my craft. It’s good to accept the good and bad of things. It helps in the long run.
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