Peer Review Screen Shots
Recursive Process:
My revision process has changed a little bit over the past semester. While I didn’t change my grammatical revision process I did change reorganization and new paragraph additions. I have learned how to add more information to my paragraphs to show my own ideas in the paper. I am able to take pieces out of one paragraph, where it may not be working too well, and incorporate those important ideas into another paragraph. This kind of reorganization was really helpful for me to adapt and use this semester because it helped me keep paragraphs and ideas that were very important to what I was talking about. Before I learned this i would just scrap those ideas since they did not fit into the paragraph they were in. I also learned how to split up paragraphs and add new paragraphs into my writing. I usually write long paragraphs that get very boring but this semester I have learned how to split a single paragraph up into multiple paragraphs that all flow nicely together. These ideas that I have learned have helped me become a better writer and be able to show my opinion and ideas in better ways.
Integrating Ideas:
When it comes to integrating ideas of other authors into my work I personally feel like I am able to do a really good job at this. All throughout high school I did timed writings where it was required to use the ideas of the authors we read about earlier and summarize or quote them in your work. I have always felt like I was able to make connections between my own ideas and other authors’ ideas as well as the ideas of two or more different authors. I think this has always been a strong suit of mine and throughout this semester I have just been able to strengthen these ideas in all 3 of my papers.
Document Work (MLA):
Along with using another author’s ideas I think that in-text citations are also a strong suit of mine. I have always quoted an author and then used a citation at the end of the quotation in my papers before it was even a requirement in this class. I was always pushed to do this in high school and it became a habit for me. And because of that I have always had them in my writing, as a way to credit the ideas that I am using from other authors. My Works Cited page has been a challenge for me to learn the proper way to put the full citations in my paper but I am definitely getting better at the citations and its rules.
