Artifacts: DD26 Literature Review Draft for Peer Review
4E. evaluate and act on peer and instructor feedback to revise their texts.
This artifact is a response project. In English-108, discussion posts and responses are really important; we have an instruction to follow and then we post our response based on those instructions. We receive feedback and suggestions from our classmates after posting our response. The peer review teaches the students how to be open-minded and receive different opinions from different students; also, how to revise our work after having feedback. Getting feedback from various students makes me improve my revision skills and try to have a different approach and different usage of words. Plus, this artifact relates to SLO 4E because it is connected to reviewing. Peer review is when you receive suggestions and feedback from other students. For example, "I suggest that you have to specify how your English version is different from the Saudi version by utilizing genre conventions like formality or structure, etc.". This was one of the pieces of feedback I received in DD33, which was really helpful to me; it was important to have a different audience for each version, but I had the same audience for both of them. Therefore, this response was useful; it taught me to be more careful when reading the instructions of a project. Lastly, this SLO improved my grades so much and was really helpful to me and a lot of other students.
Artifact 2: DD17T3 References list
2D. evaluate the quality, appropriateness, and credibility of sources
The literature review was one of the most important projects we did in English-108. The day we started the literature review, I worked really hard on it. In this specific artifact, we were supposed to gather a minimum of six sources and interpret them to support the idea of the topic we chose. I knew it was time-consuming since it needed the right sources and the specific information we were seeking to look for regarding our topic. This artifact helped my research skills by looking for the right information and paying more attention to details. I read a lot of different articles, which made me learn how to search for and spot the information that fits my topic. Moreover, even though it was time-consuming, I learned not only to manage my time well but also to organize my thoughts and ideas. Writing notes beside the main ideas, evaluating the collected information, and finding the results are all time-consuming, but they lead to gaining more knowledge about the researched topic. I could do better in the future when it comes to doing research papers due to the skills I gained from this. This artifact connects with SLO 2D: quality, appropriateness, and credibility of sources. When I did this assignment, I focused on choosing the appropriate sources for my topic and searching for sources that had good quality and were credible.
Artifact 2: DD12 Sentence Variety Workshop
1E. Adapt composing practices to a variety of audiences, purposes, and contexts.
Sentence variety workshop was extremely beneficial to me; it taught me how to write a sentence in many various ways. This task focused on three main things: first, understanding how sentence variety is really important, and practicing on different examples; second, learning new habits as a writer; third, and last, revising the sentence. We did a lot of practice on changing the structure of sentences, identifying the differences between the old and new sentences, and calculating the longest sentences we had. Furthermore, the outcomes of this specific activity were absolutely effective. Due to this task, we are now able to structure the sentence in different ways depending on the topic or audience we want to send the message to. Besides, the sentence variety workshop activity would be connected to SLO 1E, since it is about composing practices for a variety of audiences, purposes, and contexts. Through this SLO I learned how to adapt my writing based on the intended audience and purpose.
Artifact 4: DD18T1 Annotated Bibliography Tables.
2C. Use a variety of research methods, including primary and/or secondary research, for
purposes of inquiry.
Due date eighteen task one was about annotating the collected sources we had ready for the research paper. We had to separate each one of them into either secondary or primary research. Where primary research is when the information/materials are collected based on a self-conducted research process. On the other hand, secondary research is when the information/materials are gathered from previous conducted studies. Moreover, the primary sources helped me in developing my knowledge, skills, and analytical capacities. For example, when I read directly from a primary source, it made me more interested in asking more questions, and made me make bright conclusions that are related to the topic I chose. While doing the secondary research, improved my interpretation skills; where reading between the lines was really important. The SLO of this artifact would be 2C, because it includes a variety of research methods. Reading from two different methods, understanding them, and writing about them had not only improved my writing skills, but also my reading skills. As a result, since the assignment was specifically about either secondary or primary research, then this SLO is perfectly fitted.