Employ techniques of active reading, critical reading, and informal reading response for inquiry, learning, and thinking

The revision process was very important and useful throughout this course. It was also important that we were able to critique their own and others’ work by emphasizing global revision early in the writing process and local revision later in the process. When the first peer review session occurred, I was not very good at it because I focused on mainly punctuation and grammar mistakes. Having so many opportunities to work on revision skills helped develop me as a writer and the ability to critique others work. I first realized I had developed when I stopped focusing on grammar and focused on the essay as a whole. In my revision for my peer’s essay I made comments such as, “add some more analysis and connection from Dweck’s talk into your narrative.” I commented this because I knew her essay would be stronger with it, I was thinking of the essay as a whole rather than sentences. I also advised my peer to make more text to text or self connections because I believed the narrative overpowered the analysis part of her essay. I was able to see these areas of improvement in my peer’s essay and it helped me apply it to my own.