Errors

I found three different types of errors in my papers, which is comma splices, fragment sentences, and misspelling words. The reason why I have a plethora of comma splices is because I really do not know when to stop a sentence. I want to put a plethora of information in, but at the same time I try to make it short and I end up putting a plethora of commas in a sentence. The same thing goes for my reason of having fragment sentences. I do not know how to fix those so I just leave them they way they are and hope that my tutor or my peers fix them. my reason for having misspelled words is because I am lazy and do not feel like going over my work so I just turn it in not realizing that some of the words I could have fixed I just did not spend enough time on it being very lazy.

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The peer review that we do in class is effective to me because it gives me a chance to see other people papers to see how they are getting the assignment. It gives me away to see someone else's view point on it other than a teacher or professor. It also helps me to get to know my peers a little bit better because it makes us interact with each other.

My strengths as a peer reviewer is that I actually give them feedback and ways I believe they can relate their stories to real life instead of just thinking that it is for a grade, it makes the paper more interesting. My weaknesses are that some of the time I come to class late so I really do not have enough time to give them my actual opinion.

I find it more helpful to do peer review for earlier stages of the writing process because it helps you get started with the paper and motivates you to actual do it and turn it in on time. Larger groups are more helpful to me because you get more opinions and ways that you can improve your paper. I do feel that I have an appropriate amount of time for peer reviews sometimes when I enter class on time.

Free style

Out of the three assignments that we have worked on so far, I beilieved that my first paper was the best. I felt more confident about that paper because it is more personal it was not based off an article or ad. I felt like I was bascially talking to a friend when I was writing that paper. I did not have to think criticlly and I really did not have to worry about if my paper did not sound like I knew what I was talking about. I guess in a way it was my way of getting my feelings out. Like sometimes I would be afraid to speak because I thought I spoke ghetto, so that was my way of getting things out of the way I felt about people talking about me not being able to speak properly. On the other hand, my second paper was the most difficult because I had to think of what a motionless ad meant to me. I know I should have picked a better one to talk about, but that ad really stuck out to me and I thought I could have did a better job, but I did not and I really feel terrible. to me I think a paper is successful if it is very long, longer than what your professor expects you to do. If the paper is not long to me I feel that you do not know what you were talking about and in that case I felt like that, thats reason why I felt like I gave up at the end.

Comparison

The difference between my paper and the ad is I stated how wrong it is to buy hand guns in South Africa, whereas they joked about it to grab people's attention. I firmly believe that it is a time to joke and it is a time not to joke. I do not believe that they had to joke about purchasing hand guns in South Africa; they could have just been up front with it and showed how dangerous this actually is to purchase guns online. Also how dangerous it is if a young tries to purchase it, but they would not care as long as their product is being sold.

Don’t Presume to Know a Pig’s Mind

In a way this article was interesting to me. I do believe I would have an easier time writing about this article because I kind of care about pigs. The reason why is because I want to know what is going on with them. I mean I eat them daily.  Actually, I chose the last one because it was the shortest out of them all. I am just being blunt here; I do not want to say "yeah this article actually grabbed my attention when I first saw it because it did not. But it did grab my attention because it is something that I eat, so why not learn more about what the scientist are doing to them. I mean you are what you eat, whatever they are doing to them they are basically doing the same to you because you by that kind of meat at your food market or where ever, you cook it up and you eat it; simple as that.