Sebastian Salinas Trevino
ENG 1320/1301.161
Instructor: Trang Phan
Date: 01/09/2010
Peer response: teaching specific revision suggestions.
Summary:
The people is trying to response when someone do a essay with property, but less than 50 percent of them will do it correctly. The people can do a lot of comments but the majority just don’t say anything, we always put comments like “your presentation was awesome”, or “I understand everything that you said in your essay”, and sometimes like “ I totally disagrees with you” but in all the cases these comments don’t say anything at all to the author. We need to be more specifics and explain our thoughts better to the author, and with that they may understand our point and try to do it better the next time. It is like a mother scolding her kid and saying “don’t do it” the kid will not understand his mother and he will do it again, the mom needs to be more specific like “don’t kick the ball inside of the house” and it will be easier to the kid to understand and it is more probably that he will not do it.
My point is that if we will comment in something we need to be specifics and have argues of that, and it will be better to the author, and if we are right, he will do it better in the next.
Question:
How can help us a peer response in our writing?
Response:
A peer response can help us in a lot of ways. One of them is by taking different opinions about our subject, they can give us clues or advices of something that we are doing wrong.
There are a lot of kinds of peer responses, but we have to put attention in the ones that deserves our attention. We can’t prefer a response of a beautiful girl that tell us “very good” , we have to prefer the one that benefits to us, it doesn’t matter if the response tell us bad things like “you need to improve your grammar” , its better because we learn something and in a future it will benefit to us.
Its common that a lot of people don’t help us in the way we need the help, for example, I am Mexican and this is my first year here in the united states, its very difficult to me because everyone knows the English and everyone knows to talk it and write it, its harder to me because I am new in this, in Mexico my classes were in Spanish, and here its all in English it is like all different to me, and I prefer someone that tell me “you need to improve your grammar”, I cant prefer someone that tell me “you are doing it well” because these words cant serve to me, because I need to improve, and I know it, but the thing is that I don’t know what improve because this is all new to me, and there is when start the peer response and it helps me, and it can helps all the people because it is always better a second opinion.
Good response it gives good facts from the article and helps you answer the question you made.
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