- Learning Outcome 4: Peer Review
- I feel as though my peer review style has remained the same throughout the semester. I go into it to just read and react to the paper, so my peer review mainly consists of what I am thinking as I am reading. A lot of the time I usually ask “how are these ideas related,” “I feel like this segment of text could be moved somewhere else,” or “This part isn’t really clear to me so make sure to explain fully.” Those are a generalization of what I usually try to write when peer reviewing.
Task 2: Annotation and Reading Response Work (for learning outcome 3)
- 3/26 HW – Mackenzi’s Site (uneportfolio.org) This homework was about identifying where Coates mentions HR40 and why the idea of studying reparations has been debated. We had to go through the article to find where each section on HR40 was and describe what Coates was trying to imply about why HR40 hasnt been passed.This homework forced us to do a lot of interpretation of the text, thats why I included it to be a useful part of the annotation section.
- 3/24 HW – Mackenzi’s Site (uneportfolio.org) This homework was when we read the second half of the article and had to explain the annotations we put on it. This and 3/22 HW – Mackenzi’s Site (uneportfolio.org) both use annotations we put on the article. The annotations I put are mostly targeted around relations, questions, and sometimes challenges. Race is a heavy hitting topic so I was trying to really put into perspective how different my life is from what Coates is describing.
- 3/29 HW – Mackenzi’s Site (uneportfolio.org) This homework was about trying to connect the ideas we already formed with the other articles we read throughout the year to what Coates was writing about. I think this homework was challenging because we had to take our annotations/ideas we already formed about past articles and try to rethink those ideas in a way that they could connect to Coates’ article. I specifically chose Dweck and L/H for the connections, and it was really hard because they both already talk about extremely different situations and now I had to try and connect them to how racism was affecting HR40 being passed. It was hard for me to go from “L/H have a fixed mindset because…” to “L/H can be connected to the U.S. government because…”
