1. Please offer your suggestions as how we can grade your performance better?
First, I think “attitude” matters. This is an after class activity, and how we do the tasks through weekly blogging shows the motivation in learning this English course. Second, content is important. Since it is a blog writing, of course we can write in a less formal manner, but that doesn’t mean we can beat around the bush and at the end show no point at all. We still have to stick to the point and write something that really expresses ourselves. Here I think grammar is an inferior consideration. Although as English majors, the accuracy of grammar is important, but I personally think in this activity, minor grammar errors are tolerable. We should put more emphasis on communication efficiency. How we communicate with our key pals decides whether this two-way writing is successful.
2. Based on the criteria you suggested in Q1, please give a score to yourself and explain how you’ve earned it.
From 0 to 10, I choose to give myself 7. I can not say that I have done a very good job in writing my blogger, but I do take it seriously. Each time I get the new task, I will try as hard as I can to write down what I really want to share with my key pal, Wendy, and try not to make mistakes. I will review my tasks again and again after each task, and if I find errors, I will correct them immediately; or if I want to share more about my opinion, I will add some sentences to make the tasks more complete. However, although I take this activity seriously, there are in deed some parts that I do not achieve my goal and I think I am able to perform better if I try harder. There are three reasons why I choose to score myself 7. First, I do not reply to key pal’s comments on time every time, and I think I can make it if I can pay more attention to this part every week. Second, there is one task that I turned in late. I think that no matter how busy I am, it should always be my priority to finish this weekly work and in fact, this job will not take me too much time to finish. Third, I think I can write more in tasks, try to tell my opinion in a more organized way, and use some new words to enhance my writing. After these three reasons, I think 7 will be a proper score for my performance.
3. Based on the criteria you suggested in Q1, please give a score to your partner and explain how s/he has earned it.
I really enjoy doing this work with my key pal, Wendy. Wendy is really a nice girl. She is always willing to talk with me through MSN, and she has a positive attitude towards this project. If she is busy and is not able to reply my task on time, she will try her best to finish them as quickly as possible. Therefore, I choose to give her 9.
1. Please offer your suggestions as how we can grade your performance better?
回覆刪除Since it’s a TWO-WAY WRITING project, I think the communication and writing part are the two important things to be considered. First of all, through the cyber world, we can share our thoughts with a key pal we’ve never known and met before. It’s quite interesting and much easier and relaxing to do the sharing. Also, I believe this project is designed for us students to more fluently and precisely express ourselves through the practice and further to reach the goal of communication since language is a way used to communicate with others. Therefore, I think the communication part that do the two partners really communicate and share the ideas with each other is important. The second one is the writing part. Though it’s not that formal, we still have to reduce the mistakes as possible as we can. We can pay attention to word choices, grammar, try to use different words and expression or make the writing smooth and in a more organized way.
2. Based on the criteria you suggested in Q1, please give a score to yourself and explain how you’ve earned it.
I score myself 8. Generally speaking, I think I take this project seriously as what Heidi does, and I try my best to do the thinking and sharing for each task. It’s interesting to have different issues to think about every week; I will share my opinions as much as I can to Heidi and really enjoy seeing her ideas. Some of them are issues I’ve never thought about or I’ve never had chance to express. Thus, I think I do well for the communication part. However, there are still some improvements that I can make. For instance, I didn’t pay much attention to my writing part, I think I have to make good use of synonyms, broaden my work bank to make the meaning of words or the whole sentence more precise and clear and try to reduce the grammar mistakes. Besides, I didn’t post my sharing on time every time and that’s a big problem for me, I think I have to deduct some points from here.
3.Based on the criteria you suggested in Q1, please give a score to your partner and explain how s/he has earned it.
I enjoy doing the work with Heidi, too.=) She is so friendly and nice, I like to chat and share with her. Although we’ve never met each other, we kind of know more about each other through this project on the Internet. She posted her ideas on time and really does the sharing with me. Among them, she takes some of her own experiences as examples which make me feel closer and that it’s indeed a “sharing” not an “assignment”. (Haha). Also, she tries to make her writing in an organized way; for example, she briefly talks about topic sentences which she wants to share at the very beginning and then come to give more description in a clear way. So, I give her 9.
Hi, Wendy,
回覆刪除Thank you!
I agree that this activity should be a sharing, not an assignment. I always like to take my own examples into my writing. I think it will make my writing more interesting to read, and after years when I review what I wrote, the memory of the past will come into sight. That warms my heart.
By the way, I think Dr. Chen will like to see this sentence,” She briefly talks about topic sentences which she wants to share at the very beginning and then come to give more description in a clear way." During the semester, one important thing Dr. Chen taught us is that there should be a topic sentence in a paragraph!