Along with
finding a lot of grammatical errors in my paper, reading aloud benefitted me in
other ways as well. My peer members had
commented on my paper changing topic or going off topic towards the end but I didn’t really pay attention to their comments because I felt that I had changed the
subject on purpose. Upon reading it
aloud, I realized how much weight I put on the second topic and that was not needed
for my paper. I realized that I had said
way too much about it and that it upset the balance of my paper. Now, I will be able to go back into my paper
and notice all of the excess that I can delete, and narrow my focus.
I was able to catch grammar and sentence structure errors as well
because I was reading the mistakes and it clearly sounded wrong. Generally, I think reading papers out loud is
a good thing to get in the habit of doing because I think it gives you more of
an objective point of view to make your paper better because it gets it out of
your head. It forces your ears to listen
to the mistakes, whether it is grammatical or stylistic, and is easier to
recognize the changes that need to be made.
It's good to hear that you had a lot to take away from this assignment. I'm glad that you realized we were not trying to be harsh or anything because at first I kept thinking oh no I hope she's not upset. But you saw what we were meaning. Whatever route you choose to go with the paper is going to be very good, I mean for you to basically turn out two papers in one go, you are able to create so many ideas and to have them be great is another plus. It's just a matter of narrowing thoughts down and at some point, everyone can relate to having to do that.
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