In the past couple weeks in class we have: had presentations
on each other topics, learned some tips from peer edits in group workshops, and
learn helpful writing tips and tricks. Through presentations I saw how it helps
to not only know about what you are presenting about but showing passion as well.
The presentations where you could clearly see the passion or the interest in
the presenter where the ones that really stood out the most to me, and they
were the ones that I became passionate about while watching it. However,
passion is not the only thing you need when presenting. The presentations also
showed that the people who took the time to put together a presentation and
went the extra mile with extra things to talk about, a power point that wasn't
just copy and pasted onto a temple, and whose handouts really went with the
presentations instead of just part of the assignment. These are all tricks,
meaning things that I can do in the future, that will really help in my
presentations. On Monday, I attended my group workshop which was an overall
helpful experience. I knew that my paper needed work, but sometimes it's hard
to see what parts need work, and that's what my peers were able to do. They
gave me tips not just how it is done, but also those unwritten rules in
academic writing, and they did so in a very positive manor. I have been told in
the past that I sometimes have too many quotes, I was trying to prevent that in
this paper. However, I knew this was the first draft and that I would have to
go back and rephrase more, and my classmates confirmed the need to do so. I
also wasn't too sure I did a good enough job of explaining quotes and was
grateful that my classmates pointed it out so I can really pay attention to it
while I edit. I was kind of shocked how everyone reacted to my paper, they all
said that I did really well and gave a lot more compliments than I would have
expected. This really meant a lot to me, because although I've always been a
"good" writer it was my first college research paper and I was
worried about meet the expectations. It was also really cool that everyone
understood what I was trying to say and found my paper interesting, which I
wanted I just wasn't sure if I would be able to.
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