Step 2(Reflection) What I have learned about writing this week is the importance of description. Like the two different captions we see for the same picture about the water and the pills. The way something are being described can really affect others understandings about it. Just the same for writing papers, if I am do not state my points and opinions clear enough, others can not only missed my point, furthermore, they can get a completely wrong idea about my writings. So I think it is really important to make myself clear when writing my essays. I need to always tell the truth, give details and explanations so that my readers can easily get what I am trying to say. When I am writing my literacy narrative this week, I plan to first spend time looking at the pictures I am going to use, and think about the story behind each one of them, and write them down as descriptions, making sure that everything about them is clear for people to understand. After that, I will put them together and start writing my essay. Step 3(Outline): Introduction: how I develop my interest in travel Paragraph 2: story about childhood in China: travel whenever have time Paragraph 3: Places I have visited when I lived in China and how it further developed my interest in exploring the world Paragraph 4: Moving to America, facing difficulties (conflict) Paragraph 5: facing my fear, and start planning for more traveling Paragraph 6: first time traveling with friends, adventure and problems faced during it Paragraph 7: what I learned from the experience from paragraph 6 Paragraph 8: future dream about traveling Conclusion: life is about exploring the unknown, and I am planning to do that through traveling. Step 6(Peer Review Reflection): When others are reviewing my paper, the feedbacks I hope I can get are more than superficial feedbacks about grammar or overall structures. Because my classmates are the first readers that gets to read my paper and this is the time when my paper needs a lot of revision, but not on grammar or sentence structure, but content. What I hope to see when I get my paper back from peer review is that details about where I did good and where I did not. More specifically, I want to know where I provided good examples in my paper, also where I am being unclear, and needs to add more to my paper. Most importantly, what my readers understood after reading my paper, did they get what I am trying to tell my readers? In my opinion, this is the best way to do a peer review, and this is what I need to do when I am reading my classmates paper as well. To be a good peer reviewer, I need to read other’s papers carefully, and tell them what I feel about their papers, where they did good and where they are not so good in the paper. Also, I should leave comments in the margins and at the end with points that I think they can use to improve their writing, and nothing about grammar, because grammar is not important at all at this point, as the writer will edit their papers a lot before the final draft. So for peer reviewing, the most effective way is to only focus on the content and the details of the paper. Step 5:
When others are reviewing my paper, the feedbacks I hope I can get are more than superficial feedbacks about grammar or overall structures. Because my classmates are the first readers that gets to read my paper and this is the time when my paper needs a lot of revision, but not on grammar or sentence structure, but content. What I hope to see when I get my paper back from peer review is that details about where I did good and where I did not. More specifically, I want to know where I provided good examples in my paper, also where I am being unclear, and needs to add more to my paper. Most importantly, what my readers understood after reading my paper, did they get what I am trying to tell my readers? In my opinion, this is the best way to do a peer review, and this is what I need to do when I am reading my classmates paper as well. To be a good peer reviewer, I need to read other’s papers carefully, and tell them what I feel about their papers, where they did good and where they are not so good in the paper. Also, I should leave comments in the margins and at the end with points that I think they can use to improve their writing, and nothing about grammar, because grammar is not important at all at this point, as the writer will edit their papers a lot before the final draft. So for peer reviewing, the most effective way is to only focus on the content and the details of the paper.
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