It was the first time during the course of my study whereby we had
to give feedback to our peers on their essay and feedback was also given to me by
my peers. Other than peer feedback, we received feedback from our tutor as
well. A clear guideline was given to us on how we evaluate our peers’ essay. This
guideline is useful as it had helped me to evaluate my peers’ work effectively and efficiently.
I feel that the critics I received from my peers were beneficial as it has helped me to improve my writing in this course. For example, my peers were able to spot grammar mistakes in my essay which I would not have spotted that myself. Furthermore, the feedback received from my tutor was useful whereby he highlighted the main problems in my writing. With his feedback, I can improve on the language use, content and organization in my subsequent essay drafts. In addition, reading my peers’ writing can help me to learn the positive points in their writing and also learn from their mistakes. This is so that I can incorporate good writing skills and avoid making the same mistakes as my peers in the future writings. However, as my basic foundation in English language is not strong, I was worried that my feedback was not useful to my peers or even given incorrectly.
The significant of this feedback exercise gave us an opportunity to evaluate our own writing as well as our peers critically. It has helped me to edit my own writing better as now I know the language mistakes I tend to make in my essay like subject-verb agreement, so I will look out for those repeatedly mistakes before I submit my essay. Through this feedback exercise, I have also learnt to think critically when evaluating my peers’ writing and giving constructive feedback to my peers.
In conclusion, I feel that the feedback exercise overall is very useful and beneficial. In the future, I should seek feedback from different groups of people such as my peers or my tutor for my first draft of report. This is so that I can edit my subsequent drafts with the feedback I received and eliminate as many mistakes I can.
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I feel that the critics I received from my peers were beneficial as it has helped me to improve my writing in this course. For example, my peers were able to spot grammar mistakes in my essay which I would not have spotted that myself. Furthermore, the feedback received from my tutor was useful whereby he highlighted the main problems in my writing. With his feedback, I can improve on the language use, content and organization in my subsequent essay drafts. In addition, reading my peers’ writing can help me to learn the positive points in their writing and also learn from their mistakes. This is so that I can incorporate good writing skills and avoid making the same mistakes as my peers in the future writings. However, as my basic foundation in English language is not strong, I was worried that my feedback was not useful to my peers or even given incorrectly.
The significant of this feedback exercise gave us an opportunity to evaluate our own writing as well as our peers critically. It has helped me to edit my own writing better as now I know the language mistakes I tend to make in my essay like subject-verb agreement, so I will look out for those repeatedly mistakes before I submit my essay. Through this feedback exercise, I have also learnt to think critically when evaluating my peers’ writing and giving constructive feedback to my peers.
In conclusion, I feel that the feedback exercise overall is very useful and beneficial. In the future, I should seek feedback from different groups of people such as my peers or my tutor for my first draft of report. This is so that I can edit my subsequent drafts with the feedback I received and eliminate as many mistakes I can.
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Thank you, Valerie, for this comprehensive, fairly well focused reflection. You do a good job of over-viewing the peer review process of ES1102. Then you turn the discussion to your impression of the peer and tutor feedback and how these have impacted your writing. You express this all with good clarity.
ReplyDeleteWhat I would have liked to have seen more of in this essay is your thoughts on exactly how any of the skills you learned in ES1102 might be transferable to future assignments. If you ask a peer for feedback, what sort of comments will you be expecting? Will you ask about C/O/L?
In any case, I wish you all the best as you continue your learning journey!