Thlog 3

In the week 3, we only had one class since we do not have class on Monday (Martin Luther King, Jr.Day). In the Wednesday’s class, we mainly talked about the WP1.

In the beginning of class, we discuss whether a thesis of an article is correct and suitable. Here, correct means that whether the thesis statement pass the standard to be a thesis. From this part, I find that facts cannot be a thesis statement whatever, and thesis must be an opinion or argument. And it is so helpful to me that I can judge whether my thesis statement is right and suitable for specific essay.

After that, we constructed three person’s group and discuss each other’s essay specifically. In the group, I read two classmates’ essay. I found that both of their essays were perfect and I also found that they had many merits I could learn. For instance, they have beautiful hooks in the beginning paragraph, which I do not have. And they also have specific sources but I do not have. After reading each other’s essay, we gave opinions to each other about their essay. I have to say that these opinions are the most important in the process of discussion. For me, my groupmates helped me find several grammar mistakes and some sentence constitution problem. In addition, they also gave me their opinion about my thesis statement; they thought I should shorten my thesis statement sentence and make it clearer. When I should comment their essays, I had few opinions about their essay since I did not comment other’s essay before and I either did not know how to comment other’s essay. Therefore, I told myself I should practice and learn how to comment other’s essay.

In summary, in the process of commenting classmates’ essay, I got many useful comments to my essay, but I also found my drawback in commenting other’s essays.