Blog 9

As much as I liked the 4 people group my workshop was initially, I really appreciated the whole class being in on your constructive criticism. I had a lot of helpful opinions as well as compliments that my piece was very different, interesting and relatable. It gave me a lot of confidence that my writing is heading in better directions. Again, it was helpful hearing other people's feedbacks towards each others work. Like I've said, I'm not good at giving constructive criticism. For the most part, I feel my writing is at the same level as my classmates so it's not easy for me to pick at their writing and give them areas that could use improvement. However, listening to everybody else's input towards others gave me ideas that could help me grow as a writer as well and I think will help me for future peer reviews. I've learned that I need to continue working on my showing rather than constantly telling. I could not do showing for some parts so I was told to just not include those certain parts or else the consistency of my paper would be thrown off. Overall, the workshopping was really effective.