New beginnings

 Peer review  This weeks peer review tasks were interesting to write comments about the article was of use to me,  Feedback . However it was too long and took me too long to even skim through, I did try to use different reading techniques. From my first blog I’m trying to learn how to properly phrase my sentences and use different methods of writing. I learned that commas aren’t the only thing I can use to separate my sentences, for example brackets/commas; and dashes- may be used to separate sentences. This is a method used to make your sentences look and sound better; it adds flair. The other new techniques that I want to use in my next blog is keeping my paragraphs structured correctly and straight to the point. In the article the study stated “ In other words, the finding suggests that, although the quality of peer feedback that students receive may not have a direct impact on the quality of their final projects, students’ ability to critically evaluate and analytical...

 Peer review For this week I was tasked with reviewing blogs from my peers, both blogs were delightful to read and both blogs gave me a different insight on how I can improve my own style of writing, I also read four articles, two on receiving feedback and two on giving feedback. The first article runs through how there were certain exercises to achieve and the correct measures to giving feedback, the most important detail was that it's better to show someone what they could do to improve rather than what they did wrong. It's called feedforward, when giving someone feedback they could take it the wrong way but feedforward gives them a different mindset and makes it almost fun to receive. Experiment on feedforward I see this as a very optimistic view point on receiving feedback, it also sounds a lot better when you help someone and show them a way to improve rather than saying this, that and this is wrong, it shows your dwelling on someone's weak spot and making fun of it in...

 Revising writing The post I was rewriting was about active reading, from the articles I read I tried to keep a firm but smooth flowing paragraph structure and tried to mix up my punctuation by not just using commas and full stops. I also tried to adjust my paragraphs so they had a different structure, I tried to avoid repetition but with my dyslexia, it was a little tough so I looked up words for synonyms; the main point of my paragraph was at the beginning and my examples and supporting evidence was in the middle and at the end of my paragraph I attempted to make it flow into the next paragraph. I made an effort to adjust my sentences with a comma or full stop because it's something I have a problem with. When it came to writing I made a few mental notes of the steps I needed to take and I was constantly checking back on my feedback to see what else I could've changed within my blog. I've gotten costumed to spell checking as that was one of the tips recommended to me whil...

Media Literacy  Media literacy is a term used to critically evaluate the information we receive and read from the internet, this information should be carefully processed when writing an article or opinion about it. For example, https://www.medialiteracyireland.ie/news/digital-media-companies-found-lacking-in-helping-users-understand-the-online-environment and https://www.medialiteracyireland.ie/news/ofcom-research-nearly-half-of-people-across-the-uk-nations-have-come-across-false-or-misleading-information-about-covid-19. Now before reading any type of media or information on the internet you must always ask what, why and who is giving me this information, who is it aimed at and is it truthful. You must ask yourself these questions because you could easily stumble across the wrong information and it may or may not be sincere, being media literate is a skill everyone should have so you find the information you're looking for.  When I read the two articles the first one was aime...