Revenge of the Thlog

This week was another short week, so there is only one day’s worth of class to discuss. We did a lot today, but at the same time, not too much. One of the things that we did today, I wasn’t really that big of a fan of. That was the thing of socrative.com where we each submitted out first few sentences of our papers and voted on them anonymously. Although it helped me realize some flaws in my intro, I thought it took too long to get everyone to submit their own intro and then to vote on it. The time that was spent on voting for the best intro could have been better spent on more in-depth peer review – in my opinion. I think it would have sufficed to give a sample of 4 or 5 intros and then have the class vote on those – it would have save time while still achieving the goal of having us identify what moves make for the best intro.

Even though I didn’t enjoy the voting thing, that doesn’t mean I hated class today. I enjoyed reading over my peer’s papers and asking them questions to help them improve their work. I appreciated the thought and effort that my partners put into reviewing my paper. They helped give me ideas of where to break up my paragraphs to make them a more reasonable length (because that was one of my questions for them), and they questioned how I could make certain aspects of my paper easier to understand. I can always ask for friends or family to help me edit and review my papers, but I would prefer for my classmates to help edit and revise my paper with me because they have the context to understand what exactly it is that my paper should be discussing. They can help me get back on track where friends and family could not, even if they had the prompt. That’s all for now. Time to go work on editing that WP2. TTFN.

(P.S. I really hope you noticed my Thlog titles and appreciated them, because I don't have many left in me!)