Saturday, August 7, 2010
Week 9 - 3 of 3
I must admit I wasn't too thrilled about this post when I saw what we had to do. So I went around and decided who I wanted to get together to help me with this assignment. I chose my sister, mother, boyfriend, and roommate. So I told them why I had brought them together and why I needed their help. I explained to them what this class was about and that they needed to go over my second major assignment with me. I handed them each a copy of my groups essay for the second major assignment. Before they began reading, I told them what the assignment was about and what my group was supposed to do. They each read over the essay a couple of times and I got different feedback from them. Most of them said that the essay itself need work on. Not all the parts flowed together and there were mechanical errors throughout the essay. From what they know about the ASPCA (that is the organization my group picked to search) they thought that we did a good job with answering all the prompt questions. my mom thought that we did an excellent job; that's because she just loves me! I told them that there was a problem with one of our group members and they then could understand why the paper seemed rushed in some parts. My roommate thought that we could have explained some of the words and phrases that were bold since she has never taken a critical thinking class before. Overall, this was a good assignment and I am happy I did it. I got great feedback that will help me.
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Your first sentenced cracked me up, just the way it was stated.
ReplyDeleteActually now come to think of it, your roommate makes a good point on explaining the terms more. I thought they were pretty well stated and all however maybe not for someone who was not as aware of those terms as we are. That is good to keep in mind for future reference.
My family also felt that we did a good job on answering the prompt questions.
They saw and mentioned at our main flaw was the negative connotation implied throughout the paper on the organization. They said the flow was pretty good overall.
I know exactly how you feel, I was like who am I going to find that will actually read and discuss my assignment with me. But then I found 3 family members as well and let me tell you it didn't help that much at all. They told almost the same stuff your discussion group told you; some grammer errors and other than that it looked fine. But when someone actually knows how to like edit and whats suppose to be in that paper, then there input helps. You'll know what you need to work on and fix.
ReplyDeleteI love how you're so straight up about not being too thrilled with the assignment! Not a lot of people would actually admit it but hey, I gotta agree with you too. I was definitely dreading the assignment because it's hard to gather a group of people and discuss the usefulness of the assignment. Anyways, I agree with your group mates said about how some of the assignment parts were being rushed. Looking back, I didn't realize that some of my group mates also rushed their part.. now that I'm reading back my group essay. It's not fair how we put our time and effort into our parts and they just basically took the easy way out. But nonetheless, great job on this post!
ReplyDeleteYour first sentence was a definitely a great way to start writing this post! It just hooked me into reading what you have wrote. I really appreciate you being honest and straightforward about how you felt about this part of the assignment. I have to agree with you that I wasn't very thrilled about this post either since I was thinking how I can gather like three people to read the group essay and give me feedback on it. I also noticed that most of our classmates have not started on this part of the assignment yet as they have the same thoughts as us. Well, I knew I had to get a grade for this so I decided to ask my mom, dad, and my older sister to take a look at my first group essay. They actually provided me with some useful feedback saying that the essay wasn't that bad. Something we could've worked on was trying to make the essay more cohesive because some parts didn't work well together. Anyways, you did a very job with this post. :)
ReplyDeleteI liked your post. I too wasn't thrilled about getting a group together and have people look at your group assignment. Lucky for me my sister and brother in law came over for another reason and I had them look it over. I also got comments on how the assignment didn't read so well. It was kind of out of sync and read like it was pieced together from different people (which it was). I found the assignments kind of difficult in the sense that we had to rely on others for our grade. I do not think it is that fair because this is an online class and it is difficult to coordinate with other people. Our first group didn't get that good of a grade, basically because of one person, and I knew that if I just did this assignment by myself I would have gotten an A. Anyways good post!
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