Take a Step Forward. Now Take a Step Back. And Now We Cha-Cha.

Looking back, it’s been pretty hard to really make a connection between the style guides and various writings about writing and myself. Part of that has to do with lack of effort on my part. I’ve not been as invested in this class as I hoped to be and I’ve had a hard time saying that the readings – particularly those having to do with style – apply to me. It’s arrogance, for sure, but as this experience has shown me, I do better in a classroom with real people. But, in reading through the other blog posts (as of 8:29 tonight) I discovered that not only was I (as usual) full of crap about nothing applying to me, but that I have connected with the readings and books. I just didn’t realize it.

As I said, I read through the blog posts on this topic and most of them have said basically the same thing: it’s all connected. We still use ancient rhetoric. We  use YouTube on a daily basis, if not for entertainment than for the gaining of information or education. And we all are still learning about, dealing with, and acclimating to new technologies in our lives, and all of these affect our writing – even those of us who would like to think otherwise. But not only that, but it will influence how I look at future projects. Not only for this class, and not just for other classes I will continue to take, but those classes I will teach as well. I’m a Language Arts Education major, so I look at everything as something I might maybe could use in my classroom. Techniques, books, projects – all of it.

Peer Review #3

I got reviewed by two of my group members and the feedback was pretty good. Like most peer reviewing, I didn’t agree with it all, but there were things that I hadn’t thought about before like writing the style guide within a theme other than, “these are things I think should be addressed.”

Though I’m beginning to wonder if my writing or if it’s peer review in general that doesn’t seem to be generating more constructive criticism on actual content. Or maybe it’s that I am used to receiving more specific feedback from teachers/instructors on final drafts and not used to the peer review process.

I am thankful for this process though, because it’s really helping me figure out how I’m going to run it in my own classrooms.