The more I write in Stephanie’s class, the more I see my faults in writing. That’s not always a negative thing when it comes to writing my papers. I see my mistakes and then I correct them. I feel like when she gives us the chance to revise our papers and revise them once more, it feels like getting a gift. I have never had a teacher do that, and I feel like this helps me with my writing coordination. Grant it I still have errors even after I revise but it’s less then what it would have been without being able to revise my paper.
Seeing her comments allowed me to focus on what I should correct and make more logical for my paper. First I had problems with length, then flow, then making me fit into my subculture more than me just telling it to my audience. I sat down to revise my paper; I corrected the length by conjoining sentences and taking out unneeded information that didn’t belong. I added ME into my subculture more than me just telling you about it. I still had problems with flow in the end. This revising and evaluation comments allowed me to see some of my weaknesses that I shall focus on in future writings.
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
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I have to agree that revising is very much a gift. I was never that great in any of my english class so I was a little worried about taking it. Though out of all my college class's she gives more assignments than the others I still very much enjoy her class. Also for her class leading in the department of giving alot of assignments, her class also leads in having tought me the most.
ReplyDeleteI think both of you are right considering revisions as a gift. In high school, my teachers would always give comments on our papers and have us revise them, but we were never really taught the importance of revision. I would always just simply go back and make simple corrections where my teacher told me to and not think twice about it. In this class, I'm learning how to take areas that need correcting and strategically think about how it could best be corrected. Plus I really can't complain about being able to resubmit a paper as many times as neccesary
ReplyDeleteI totally agree that being able to revise our papers is a gift. Most teachers that I have ever known give you one chance to perfect and that's it. That is not an effective way to learn at all so I think we are pretty lucky. Yea we get alot of papers, but that is what makes us better writers and students overall.
ReplyDeleteits amazing what stephanie can do to ones writing self esteem lol. she hsa a way of lettin ya know you screwed up. but its a good thing. i think this class has been very benefictial to our writing. its good we continue to grow in our writing.
ReplyDeleteI've got admit, Stephanie had turned out different than I'd originally predicted. And I have to agree, revising can help tremendously. I've always thought of it this way, in High School you might've been expected to revise a paper once, but I've never really had all too much help when it comes to doing it. What's nice now in writing our papers, she's clear and gets her criticism across without making us feel sub-ordinate. Previously I've had a lot of teachers look down upon kids when they ask for help. And generally, I've always thought, then why'd they become a teacher in the first place.
ReplyDeleteAgreed, revising more than once is a relief.
Revising stinks because you just want to be done with it. But, actually i have seen my writing get better after each process we go through till we get the final one. So yes it is a gift that we get to do so many things to it before we have to hand it in. Then on top of that we get to revise it all the way up to the end of the semester now that is sweet. I hope that all this rough draft stuff we do will help in the future.
ReplyDeleteVery, very interesting, my students.
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