So, I did my “This I believe” Essay that was originally due
on Thursday and extended until Friday because of the 4th of July
holiday. I posted it. In my writing group, we have 6 people, but for the last
assignment we only had 4 people post and for this assignment we only had 3
people post. Part of our assignment as well was to answer questions about the
Essay by “posting to the essay thread”. I am the only person who responded the
questions to the essay threads and the remainder of the assignment was due
yesterday, with the assignment extension I guess it is technically due today. I
am having a really hard time understanding all the assignments and what to do
in them. If I am doing this right, then of the other people in my writing
group, 3 are getting zeros for not turning in the assignment and 5 are getting
a 0 because they didn’t do the “This I believe Essay – Workshop responses”.
Then in the lesson 6 for this week we are suppose to turn in our “This I Believe
Final Draft”. I wrote what I thought was a good paper, so how do I edit this
with absolutely no feedback from anyone, especially the teacher? I don’t know
how to edit my paper. The Writers Workbench had some good information, but I
wrote this paper after reading that. I still don’t understand what is right and
wrong with writing. Reading the “freewriting” by Peter Elbow and having us free
write then also having us edit our own papers is so confusing because she is
saying, just write, it’s okay that it’s not perfect then she says hey, edit
your own paper and go through these readings on what makes a paper better? I am
just feeling extremely confused and frustrated with this class.
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Lauren, I know what you are going through. I also entered my This I believe essay to my writing group's discussion board and I only got 1 reply. I didn't really get much feedback out of that reply either. I feel like the freewriting exercises are just to get us to open our mind and not be afraid to write. We then can take what we have written and proofread and maybe, in time, turn it into a great essay. (That's what we hope for anyway) I hope you can get some feedback from somebody or you can email me your draft and I would be willing to answer the questions assigned. Anything I can do just let me know.
ReplyDeleteRob McGowin
Rob, the same goes for you, I f you would like my feedback on yours I would be willing provide it! At this point, I think I have tweaked a few things and all I can do is hope it is good enough! Thanks so much!!
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