The problems I had with writing this paper was that I had to
write a first rate paper in
such a short amount of time. I have gotten used to having three to four days to
type a rough draft, a week or two to peer edit the rough draft, and having a
three day window to turn in an essay. It was hard for me to write a well-organized
rough draft in one night because I need time to think about what I am going to
write my essay over, organize it in an outline, and then type it after all of
that is done. Those three steps typically take me a couple of days to do. When we did peer review I thought that talking
about the paper with group members helped us realize what we did wrong and what
we did well on, but reading our paper backwards helped because we were able to
see what sentences did not make sense because we were reading our paper a
different way. I know for one that I will be doing that more often on papers
because I think that it will help my writing skills be more sophisticated.
Yeah, writing papers in approximately forty-five minutes is a real drag. I also felt that reading my paper backwards allowed me to take a new perspective on the essay. I found issues with my paper I wouldn't have found otherwise. I felt more assured with my paper when I revised it. I'll try to employ this strategy in future papers as well.
ReplyDeleteI agree. One can write a decent paper in one night, but not necessarily a good one. The peer review method of reading backwards did help, I agree. However, I find that if we performed the "ratiocination" method of editing and peer-editing, we'd be able to cover a lot more. I found that that was a lot of help in finding and fixing down to the tiniest detail. You should probably look it up or something... I'm not quite sure, but it dictates a series of steps you take to absolutely PERFECT your paper, within a fairly small frame of time (in my opinion) than some other methods. (Granted, it'd only apply if you did all the steps in one sitting.)
ReplyDelete