ENG 103:01 Group 1

This week in class we worked in a peer workshop in order to hear other ideas and points of view on our writing for our first Essay project. This got me thinking about how important criticism is. I  read my essay draft and wasn't very confident in it. Then I received helpful criticism that allowed me to better my essay and in the end, my confidence on my paper rose. Criticism is a vital piece of becoming better at whatever you are working on. If you never receive criticism or if you do and you don't listen to it, you are doing yourself a massive disservice. The overall purpose of criticism is actually to help, not to make fun of or embarrass. Sure, in some facets critics attempt to bewilder their target. We mostly see this in entertainment and politics. But in the educational setting, students should learn to embrace criticism and take it as another brain filled with different ideas that is trying to improve and progress whatever it is you are doing. Its another form of teaching...

Essays. Gross. Essays are the thing that most students dread completing after reading their English teacher’s syllabus.   Writing is something that we all know how to do, something that we continuously do throughout our lives, and something that some feel is a waste of time. Personally, I hate writing essays. I am typically unmotivated and have no idea what to write about, even when given a prompt. Now, if you are anything like me, you too may not write your essays or reports until last minute. Literally the night before they are due. When in this situation, I know that I personally can make a million grammatical mistakes or ramble on and on. A good way to make sure that everything gets cleaned and fixed up before turning it in is to revise it. However, when it is coming on three in the morning and you must wake up for the first class in three hours, revising may be the last thing on your mind. After hearing that we would be doing peer workshops in class, I am not going to li...

  In writing this week's essay, I found t he question, “what is the individual’s responsibility to society?" vague. Neither the nature of the individual’s responsibilities nor the identity (or timeline) of the society can be ascertained from the question, leading one to assume that the individual in question must be a member of the reader’s contemporaneous timeline and contextual (read: identifiable) society. As the philosophy of what construes individuality may vary from country border to border, these distinctions are furthered by the eclipse of time which has seen a myriad of thoughts on individual identity, privilege, and responsibility in the collective of what is deemed society. As the essayist responding to the prompt, I may assume that the question pertains to my opinion of individual responsibility in the United States in 2020. However, I may also assume that the question maintains purposeful vagueness, and instead insists the reader to espouse personal theoretic...