Writing perfect paragraphs each week helped me finalize a piece of writing for my peers to review. I was nervous at first to post my writing for others to see and comment on, but I slowly became more comfortable with it after seeing how helpful the comments were. As the semester went on, I got better at writing helpful comments rather than just complimenting everyone’s paragraphs. I noticed that most of the class had trouble with making the perfect paragraphs flow nicely with transition statements. It was interesting to see that there were some common factors that we all could have improved on. I liked the perfect paragraphs because I could see what I needed to improve on before turning in the assignments for some classes. I was able to use the revised paragraphs to hand in; I basically had free peer editing for my papers which was valuable. Revising my paragraphs also helped me understand and solidify my knowledge on a particular topic as some of the paragraphs were taken from notes in my classes. This was a very useful study technique throughout the semester. In the future, I will write out the material that I struggle with as if it is telling a story because I learned that this tactic was very useful for studying and understanding complicated concepts.
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