(posted by Maida on the group's behalf)
For our fifth group meeting we headed to the Maclab so we could print out what we had worked on during the previous rotation. Unfortunately we had some printer problems, so we lost a little time getting things ready. Fortunately we still managed to get through all the assigned work. First we read the thing about voice and made sure we didn't have any questions about it for one another. Next we read each of our pieces out loud to one another. We picked out 5-star quotes from each of our papers (I didn't think mine had any but we managed). We came to the conclusion that all of the quotes had a few things in common:
They were well written and descriptive, they reflected recognizable traits of the authors (i.e. we could "hear" the author saying these things), and they were all quotes that group members could
identify with. Overall I thought it was a successfull and productive period, and reaffirmed at least my belief in the "sayback" method.
-Matt
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Hope you don't mind that I did a little blog maintenance and re-posted this from the comments so it appears on the blog itself.
I'm sorry to hear that you spent group time dealing with the printer. Please do make an effort to at least arrive with your work printed (if not sent to group members in advance) so this doesn't happen again.
Also, some of your work in the last meeting was based on a misunderstanding of the instructions, though it's actually interesting what you did with it. The "5-star" quote was intended to be about the "Voice" reading in order to get a discussion going; instead you applied the exercise to your own writing. Seems like this process could have provided the authors with some rich feedback, though it's hard to tell from this review exactly what that feedback was.
-Maida
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