To write this paper I went through four rounds of revision. I did two rounds of revision for my first draft, one round of revision for my second draft and one final round of revision before I turned in my final product. For the first draft I wrote about three pages of my paper and during class we were assigned peer revision groups. My professor also looked at my paper and made comments. The comments I received from my professor…
In high school peer review was not an extremely lengthy process, especially if I was reviewing a classmate’s paper, especially if I was assigned to review that person’s paper and I did not know them personally. If one of my friends asked me to read over their paper I could informally tell them my critiques rather than have to go through a structured peer revision class exercise. Informally reviewing a friend’s paper allowed me to have less of a filter…
In the past I would integrate my quotes in the same way as discussed by my professor in my English 110 Class. During high school we were taught to introduce a quote by briefly summarizing what was happening when the quote was said, including who said the quote and the manner in which they said it when working with a piece of literature in an essay. We were taught to introduce our quotes like this “While Frodo was explaining how…
