Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Good Writing
I sometimes don't trust the opinions of what other students write on my paper. One day when we were writing a research paper, a student revised it, and I did not agree with some of the comments they wrote on my paper, so when I turned it in to the teacher, I didn't change anything. After she revised it and gave it back to me, she had written a lot of the same comments the student had made before, and I felt like an idiot for not changing anything. This made me realize that I need to look at what I write more perceptively and keep an open mind.
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Ah, pride. I had a similar problem - "They don't know what they're saying, I know my writing is good..." then, *pow*, my teacher echos the comments.
One of the tenents of teaching is that students often respond better to being taught by each other, mostly because the playing field is seen as level. Even though I know learning the lesson of peer-editing was kind of irksome, I'm glad you took something positive away from it. Kudos!
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