Peer Workshop
Reflect on your past experiences with peer workshops or peer review. Spend some time talking about classes in the past that you have used it in, what you have liked about it, what you have disliked about it, and more. Share your overall thoughts and make sure to justify your thoughts with specific detail.
The last classes I took that used peer workshop were my ENG 111 and ENG 112 classes. We used peer workshop much like we do in this class. We would take a day to read each other’s drafts and make comments, suggestions, and corrections using a worksheet. After we were done with this we would talk to the person who’s draft we were reading and share what we had written on the worksheet under the prompts given.
These days really did help me because when I tend to look over simple mistakes when I write because I keep looking at the same thing over and over, and I know what I wanted it to say so my mind skips over some silly things. What I dislike about peer workshop is that you sometimes get paired with a partner that doesn’t give you viable feedback. It doesn’t help me when my partner tells me that everything looked good and there is nothing to correct…there is always something that could be done better. It gets reflected in my grade when this happens.
February 18th, 2009 at 10:48 am
It’s refreshing to hear that peer workshop was helpful for you. I completely can relate to being paired with bad partners in workshops, this is one of the biggest reasons I have for disliking peer workshops.