This course has demonstrated the importance of collaboration as great work and writings come from not only you but the minds that helped you get there as well. In this way, both Professor Crohn and Poe helped highlight the importance of peer reviewing each other’s work and considering the comments given of, not only your professor, but your classmates as well. Below, you will find the various ways in which I demonstrated engaging in collaboration and the social aspects of the writing process.
Peer Reviews
As a writer, it is very necessary tot be able to consider other people’s views and opinions of the works you create. Therefore, peer reviewing has played a very important role in the writing process as it is used in the course to help me develop an even stronger argument and essay. I have always retained information given about my writings, both critiques and praises form my classmates and professors, but I have also given specific information for others to consider. Here are some exemplar peer reviews of mine where I give good comments for the writer to consider in order to make their work even stronger:
Professor’s Comments
Not only do I demonstrate collaboration with my classmates, but as well as with my professors. I consider my professors comments when I am handed back work, which I use to create even stronger writing when doing revisions. For instance, when wring my revised paper of the poetic analysis essay I had constructed, I used the feedback given from Professor Crohn and Poe to incorporate in my revised final draft of the essay.
Here are some of the professors’ comments that I considered for my revisions:
Revisions:
As a result, I use the comments in order to revise my writings, like the Literacy Analysis Narrative and the Poetic Analysis assignments.
In the revision of the Literacy Narrative, Professor Poe commented on my use of the description as I had not clearly defined the setting for the narrative nor did I use enough sensory description to create more vivid imagery. Therefore, for my extra credit revision of this assignment, I took advantage of the opportunity to not only make my writing stronger but also demonstrate my engagement and consideration of her comments. Here is the final result of my Literacy Narrative assignment that included a good amount of vivid imagery and clearly included a setting:
Literacy Narrative Final Draft
Additionally, the poetic analysis assignment was also another area where I demonstrated great consideration and engagement of collaboration because I used the feedback both Professor Crohn and Poe gave me in order to revise it for the final draft of Professor Poe’s class. Their feedback included included better wording of sentences and incorporating an outside source, which was done through my intense research to find a source through the CCNY Library Database, where I used such databases like JSTOR to find the right source. Thus, I successfully accomplished to incorporate the feedback, while also learning to compose certain texts to integrate that I located from research sources for my final draft with even a proper formatted works cited page, as seen below.
These two assignments not only demonstrated clear engagement of collaboration, but they both also showed that I explored and analyzed various different writings and reading with different rhetorical situations. I demonstrated exploration and analysis of diverse readings because each assignment was based off a completely different type of text; I explored and thoroughly analyzed a brief poem for my poetic analysis, while I explored the genre of literacy narratives through the creation of my literacy narrative assignment. Therefore, I show my exploration of different rhetorical situations through both instances where I also analyze in both but in different ways; I consider the story-line and details for my literacy narrative, while I demonstrate analysis through my poetic analysis because I use my organization and usage of rhetorical terms to examine the poem and explain the allegories of the text.
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