Lesson 4

Assignment Four


1. For this assignment, you are to review the assignment submissions of your classmates from the first three assignments in this course. Choose three. They may represent work that you believe are either dead perfect, or perhaps demonstrate one of the negative points we have learned today. Not only is it difficult receiving a truthful review, but it is quite difficult in creating one. Without naming the student, or specifying the assignment, state why you think the assignment was a winning assignment, or why you believe it was an "also ran" piece of work.

"I found an assignment in Lesson X that I thought was a winner because...", or
"In one of the assignments for Lesson X, I saw an example of apology when my classmate...." are very general examples of what I am looking for here. If you have a question, don't. Find another assignment to write up. This is a very friendly exercise! (Have I stated this clearly, or should I run chalk off the standing lines for "Shotguns at Five Paces"?)

I do not want sniping, or sucking up in this assignment. I merely wish to see that you are on-task, and on target with our learning points for this lesson. Play nice. Okay?

For Lesson One the entry I read was excellent. I didn't find any of the negative issues described in the assignment. It described in very flowing language the role writing has played in this author's life and how he has been able to come back to it in his later years.

In the second one I reviewed, for Lesson Two, the author expressed so little confidence I felt like it was close to apologetic. She made excuses ahead of time. She also has a misspelled word (a typo) which strikes me as very unprofessional since all she had to do was read over what she wrote to see it. She uses another pair of words which either should have a hyphen between them or made into a prepositional phrase using the word "of" between them. It needed rewriting.

The third one I reviewed was for Lesson Three. This one was not perfect. In it they spelled "very" when it should have been "vary". Also, one of the three sentences was a fragment and not a complete sentence. For that reason it was not professional. In addition, I felt like it was incomplete. He formed a general action plan that was vague without making much of a commitment to following it.