What do I think of Peer Reviewing????
Well I think that it is a great way to get feed back about your writing. At first it can be nerve racking only because you really don't want other people to read what you wrote. I know sometimes I freak out and feel like my paper isn't good enough. Today in class though when we did peer reviewing on our rough drafts I was paired up with Ashley and it went very well. I actually had a hard time with my rough draft, only because I couldn't remember a lot of the details. Ashley gave me a lot of ideas about some other things that I could add to my personal narrative. Her constructive criticism was great, she wasn't like "oh your paper sucks" and she also wasn't like "oh it's perfect," I really liked that she was honest and it really helped me out. Sometimes that's just what you need is for someone else to read your paper because they may think of better things for you to include in your writing that you may not have thought of. Other people pick out your mistakes as well, even reading it aloud yourself will make you notice the mistakes you made. I hope to improve my paper and put in more details that I didn't think of right away.
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Sunday, September 18, 2011
Writing Assignment-Sedaris
Learning can always be a challenge, depending on what it is...
In high school I took two years of Spanish and passed with A's, it was easy to comprehend when I needed to. Once we moved on in a lesson though I always forgot what the teacher taught us the prior lesson. I basically did enough to get my "A." I never thought I would need to know it in my lifetime so I didn't think to much of it. Then in my neighborhood back home a Hispanic family moved in next door. They had three boys and all of them could speak English, as well as their dad. Their mom though only knows a few words of English, she has always just been stay at home mom. The family owns a Mexican Mini Market in town, the boys go after school and on weekends to help out at the store. The hard thing about this all is that our dad's became good friends and helped each other with work. So sometimes him and his wife will come over and have coffee but there was always is a part that's awkward because the mom can't speak that much English. Their middle son and I became best friends, we still are to this day and over the past summer he would say that it is the hardest thing to translate for his mom sometimes because words have different meanings when they are said in Spanish and then translated into English. Now that we have become best friends I wish that I would have kept up with Spanish and took it more serious. I only think that because now I see what it's like to not fully understand something or someone, I can only image how frustrating it is for her.There is always room to learn new things and review the old.
In high school I took two years of Spanish and passed with A's, it was easy to comprehend when I needed to. Once we moved on in a lesson though I always forgot what the teacher taught us the prior lesson. I basically did enough to get my "A." I never thought I would need to know it in my lifetime so I didn't think to much of it. Then in my neighborhood back home a Hispanic family moved in next door. They had three boys and all of them could speak English, as well as their dad. Their mom though only knows a few words of English, she has always just been stay at home mom. The family owns a Mexican Mini Market in town, the boys go after school and on weekends to help out at the store. The hard thing about this all is that our dad's became good friends and helped each other with work. So sometimes him and his wife will come over and have coffee but there was always is a part that's awkward because the mom can't speak that much English. Their middle son and I became best friends, we still are to this day and over the past summer he would say that it is the hardest thing to translate for his mom sometimes because words have different meanings when they are said in Spanish and then translated into English. Now that we have become best friends I wish that I would have kept up with Spanish and took it more serious. I only think that because now I see what it's like to not fully understand something or someone, I can only image how frustrating it is for her.There is always room to learn new things and review the old.
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