Prior to Straub's piece I did exactly what the first paragraph accused all of us of doing. Making a few good comments, grammatical corrections, please the teacher a little bit; basically just getting in, getting out. I also thought I should be like the teacher or a judge instead of just giving some assistance. I forget that it's not MY paper and my peer is just simply asking for my advice and opinion. After reading this piece however, I now realize how crucial it is to be more of a reader than an editor. I can back off a little bit and not throw myself into their paper as if it's my own. I learned I need to let them figure out what angle to come from, or where or say a certain sentence. They need to learn were to place things just as much as I do.
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ReplyDeleteThanks for the honesty here, Chelsea. A lot of student see peer workshopping that way. I hope that as we continue writing this semester, you'll start to see it as something more valuable.
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