So today we read our papers out loud in class. I guess it wasn’t so bad but I don’t want to make a habit of it. I’m personally not comfortable reading things out loud at all. Which I think most people could tell by the way I was stumbling over the words. Anyway, getting feedback about what was good in my paper was awesome but I didn’t feel like I got a lot of criticism. And I can totally understand that, because if anyone is like me, I don’t like criticizing other’s work out loud. I’d prefer to write it down on a piece of paper.
Also, I still think that it would be very beneficial for Mr. Logan to hand back our rough drafts the following Monday after we’ve handed them in. I don’t feel like I know what exactly he wants out of my paper and it really doesn’t help me as a writer if I get what he expects when he hands back my final draft. I feel like I could’ve done a better final draft if he would’ve let me know before I handed it in. Plus, grading the final paper would be much easier if he gave us feedback on our rough draft so that we could maybe fix it for our final draft. There wouldn’t be AS many things wrong with it. Because each paper is different in terms of what we write about and what we think he would want so even though we sort of go through things during other class hours, it still doesn’t help me as much as I would like. But maybe that’s just me.
Natasha Dahlin
