Be able to critique their own and others’ work by emphasizing global revision early in the writing process and local revision later in the process.
At the beginning of this semester my reflections on others’ work were in my view severely lacking. With any real reflections being local and not global, with this not helping them to further develop and flush out their ideas. This is certainly something that I’ve always struggled with as I’ve always been reserved in the critique of others’ work as I feel as if I may overstep and do more harm than good. With this resulting in my critics most falling into the realm of local, which really only has so much benefit. But over the semester I have made an extreme effort and luckily been able to improve. With me being able to help further develop their idea through meaningful feedback as I come out of my shell. With me being able to critique the paper’s contents over its spelling and grammar. I’m feeling that I was able to give more profound and meaningful feedback that could allow for proper improvement of their ideas and concepts. Which is certainly a stunning improvement when compared to the work that I did during the beginning of this semester. Although I do still feel as if I’m lacking in some regards. My critiques are certainly better and help to improve the content and narrative, but they can be sparse at times. I often find myself making a few large and precise comments on what they could possibly add or integrate, as opposed to a large number of more general yet still constructive comments. Yet this is something that is not necessarily a downside as most of my critiques are more meaningful and precise. Such as the comments I made on the following paper.
With all of this considered I’m still happy with my improvement in skill, as I’m far better and giving more meaningful feedback than I was at the start of this semester.
