Thlog 3

So I guess I’m a little late getting to this thlog, Zack was right about the “Thlogging Thursdays” it’s definitely a good way to make sure you get your thlog done on time. Last week we read about how to peer review writing. Some of the main points were to not only praise the writer, but also to provide helpful constructive criticism. The way to do this is to take a step back as a reader and think about what is effective and what isn’t about what you are reading. You want to make note of what is working by underlining certain phrases and commenting something like “I really like how you used textual evidence to back up your claims.” At the same time you also want to point out the less effective parts of the paper and to do that you might comment something like “That is a fair point, but I think you need textual evidence to back up that claim and validate it.” The best way to peer review is to clearly state what isn’t working and why it isn’t working, but also to point out when something is working very well.

We spent a lot of time in class working on the writing process and what it takes to get your paper out of your brain and onto a document. I concluded that the best way to write is to first outline all of the ideas that you want to write about with no particular order. I then categorize those ideas into similarities and that is what I will form my paragraphs out of. Then from those fragmented ideas I begin to write out full sentences that follow a train of thought. After writing one or two paragraphs like this I take a look at what I have written and the rest of my outline and see where I am going to take my writing. I then write my introduction with a thesis that reflects the main idea of what I want to say. After that I finish writing the rest of my paper then go back and begin the revision process.