Category: Unit 1 (Page 1 of 18)

DEJ

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Quotation: “Students placed greater value in professors’ feedback vs. peers’, usually ignoring peer responses unless they were forced to use them in revisions”

Analysis: I agree with is this quote because I sometimes tend to do this myself. Most of us don’t realize that our peer’s feedback can actually help us develop a better writing piece. It is important to keep this in mind for when you are analyzing your peer’s writing. It is also important to accept feedback from both teachers and peers.

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Quotation: “Students would often judge their peers’ writing based on what they thought a teacher would want, rather than their own criteria for what makes writing good”

Analysis: This is relatable because I usually stick to answering the question rather than adding more ideas because I don’t like to go off topic. However, it is good to add your own criteria because it makes your writing more interesting.

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Quotation: “Meaningful praise, then, is feedback that recognizes something that is working for you as a reader, that gives you an opportunity to have a dialogue with the author, and that expresses some sort of appreciation for the work the writer has done, or for the writer herself.”

Analysis: I never heard of meningful praise in writing. It is good to know about this. I often find myself appreciating the way authors word things in their writing. As well as their writing techniques because this allows me to incorporate similar writing techniques in my own writing.

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Quotation: “You may try to write your peer response using different color pens—for example, green for praise, orange for combination comments, or green to praise stylistic techniques and blue to praise ideas.”

Analysis: This is great advice. I never thought about giving feedback this way. I can use different colors to point out ideas, praises, constructive criticism, and comments. This way is more organized and it shows my peer that the feedback I am giving them can be useful and they will appreciate more rather than just leaving a simple comment. This goes back to my first analysis that most students ignore their peer’s feedback. This is most likely because their feedback isn’t organized so they won;t find it useful.

I think that James Baldwin means that there is more than what we already know. Schools only teach us about what the white race have accomplished in history but barely teach about what Blacks, Hispanics, and other races people have done in history. By saying the “world is larger” he means that there is more that we could learn, there is a lot of unknown things out in the world. We have to go beyond what the school system is teaching us; it is our responsibility to educate ourselves higher levels. We have the right to view things from a different perspective. There is more history in the world and more things that happen other than what happens in America. We have to be open minded to other countries history because even though ours may be “terrible” there is far more worst things happening in the world.

What I wish was taught to me about in school is taxes. I believe taxes is a very important topic that should be taught in school because we pay taxes for almost everything and pay taxes for most of our lives. We go from graduating to getting a job and not understanding why and what taxes we pay. Also, we were not taught how many researchers have used black people for their scientific experiments which abuses them, use them as guinea pigs and lie to them. I believe this is something that should be taught because how James Balwin said “any negro who is born in this country and undergoes the American educational system runs the risk of becoming schizophrenic” we are taught limited things in school about the American culture, often leaving out what the blacks and other races have done for this country. That makes the black children feel undervalue and worthless.