Sebastian Salinas Trevino
ENG 1320/1301.161
Trang Phan
09/21/2010
1. What were your concerns about in an SQR? What would you like the group to consider, respond to, or evaluate on an SQR of yours?
My concerns about doing an SQR were that I don’t know a lot of English because I am a foreign student and I think I don’t have the enough skills to write English like my other classmates. I think that I am not as bad as I think but this is my freshmen year and I think that I am doing a good paper. My grammar is not as good as the others, but I think that I can express myself better, the problem is that I can’t express my ideas in English and it is kind of difficult to me, but I think that I can do this and with the time I will learn more and I will know more.
I want the group to consider to my way of think not to my grammar. I know that is more difficult to them to understand my words but I think that my words say a lot of thinks and maybe I can express better. I want them to fix my errors because with that I will learn more and in a future it will be more easier to me.
2. How did you see/evaluate the comments you made on your peers’ papers? Honestly, do you think they were really helpful? (It’s ok that you can say no. If that’s the case, please state what made you unable to provide specific comments as you wished. It’s important for me to know how carefully you read your peers’ papers and how did you work on commenting your friends’ papers).
I evaluate the comments of my classmates by the meaning of the words. I think it is the most important think in a summary because you have to know what are you talking about to express the others your way of think. I think that the peer response is very helpful and very useful too because when we do a peer response we discuss all the errors of the article and if three people agree with one error it must be an error. It is better because when we do peer response we agree with the good things of the article and when we discuss we will get a point of the article.
When my friends and I do a peer response, first we start to find the errors of grammar, then we try to understand the idea of the article and finally we discuss about it and put a comment of what we think of it. These have been very useful to us and can be useful to others.
