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Week 8 Comments and Feedback

Feedback In While I can read my stories and see plot holes or other thematic issues, I am really bad at catching things like grammar. So, the feedback that I have found the most helpful from students would be that pertaining to my grammar and other technical parts of my writing. Feedback Out I would like to think that my feedback is of at least decent quality. I use the "WWW" feedback strategy for most of my feedback and I think it has been working well. I like that gives me an outline to start with. It is even easy to remember so I don't have to pull up another window to work on feedback. Blog Comments I have enjoyed the blog comments, and I think that my blog is a decent place to learn about me. I think the one thing about the blog comments I would change is that it is mostly randomized. Thinking about it in terms of a physical classroom, people generally talk to the people sitting around them most often and other classmates less. While this doesn't let yo...

Week 8 Reading and Writing

Hello! Thus far I have really enjoyed the reading and assignments for this class. Having something new to read each week has kept me interested, and the writing assignments are an enjoyable way for me to exercise a part of my brain that I don’t get to use much. Although I always feel pressed for time in completing these assignments, I look forward to the time I get to spend on them more than the work for any other class. I think the things I am the proudest of right now would be the look of my blog and the introduction to my story book. As for my introduction, I don’t know how long I spent just staring at a blank word document before I got up the courage to write it. Creative writing like that, specifically storytelling, was never something that was emphasized in any curriculum I have had. It has all been centered more towards technical writing or academic writing. So, this was new territory for me, and anyone that knows me well at all knows I hate being bad at things and tha...