Assignment: After having read Straub's article, respond to the following:

Describe your previous experiences with workshopping. If you have never had a peer

workshop session, discuss teacher feedback (both good and bad--essentially what has worked and what hasn't worked). Articulate the difference between editing and revision. At what stage of the writing process do you edit vs. revise? Is it necessary to do both, and defend your position. What are some concerns you have about peer workshopping? Describe at least two suggestions and cite* from Straub's article, explaining the strategy he suggests and how you see yourself implementing it during our workshops in class.

I have never had a true experience with working in a peer workshop over papers I have written. The closest to this experience with my peers, would probably have been when working on a class project as a group. Even then, if an essay portion were to have to be submitted, one member of the group would usually read through the essay themselves and correct what they thought needed to be corrected without discussing the reasoning behind their critiques to the group as whole that had written the essay. With teachers feedback though, I cannot recall a time when it has been as in depth as Straub has described. As short as the comments or corrections have been, such as red pen marks for punctuations or a comment next to a paragraph stating how to reword a sentence structure correctly, when I see a teacher/professor correct an error like this I take these corrections to heart by making sure I do not repeat my mistakes twice. The difference between a revision and editing a paper in the sense that the article speaks about, a revision is adding comments/suggestions to a rough draft of ones paper in the attempt to try and give praise/advise in help the writer clarify/help them bring their paper to its full potential. Whereas editing is correcting punctuation, grammar, citations, or even format to a draft before the final draft and after reading RespondingReally Respondingto Other Students Writing it does seem to be very imperative to do both editing and revisions in order to strengthen the writing ability/quality of a student. According to Straub (1999) he states Youre there to play back to the writer how you read the paper: what you got from it; what you found interesting; where you were confused; where you wanted more (p.137). From this sentence alone, I could write down each one of these questions and make sure I answer them truthfully and to the best of my ability during the workshops in class. Straub (1999) explains, Dont try to deal with everything all at once if its a first, rough draft. Concentrate on the large picture: the papers focus; the content; the writers voice (p. 138). I can take this and apply it to actually focusing on the paper itself instead of on small grammatical errors during our in class workshops as well. Even though Straub has illustrated several amazing tips to learn from in this article with how to approach being a responder to another persons paper, I fear that during these workshops students will not give their utterly honest advice with praise as well. Particularly because of the fear of hurting another persons feelings or due to the fact they are not close to the individual whose paper they are reading, which in turn might not make them feel obligated to help the writer.