Issues Paper- Basketball globalization

My issues paper topic discusses the global spread of the game of basketball.  The stance that I plan on taking with this topic deals with how the expansion of basketball is good for the game and the world.  This paper will address globalization by giving examples and commentary on how basketball is being spread to countries other than the United States.  By the game being spread to the rest of the world, many talented players have the opportunity to come play in the top league, the NBA.  The expansion also allows for the game to become popular with the fans outside the United States.  Basketball has become a very popular sport outside the US and it continues to grow in popularity.  Many countries see that the people like the game of basketball and realize that establishing good basketball programs could lead to increase national wealth.  The countries of the world have realized that basketball is becoming one of the world’s fastest growing sports and are trying to take advantage of it.  One of the countries that has tried to take advantage of the growth of basketball is Lithuania.  Lithuania was a soccer country that didn't want anything to do with basketball, but they have grown to love the sport as a nation.  The country has put a lot of money in player development.  They have paid for nice facilities and good coaching, and they are being reward for it with a strong young basketball program.  Basketball is becoming a global game that is changing the world.

Peer reviews

I like having peer reviews because it gives me another opportunity to revise my rough draft. I also feel that peer reviews can be really helpful because it helps me understand another’s point of view. It also depends on the other classmates on how the peer reviews go because they have to put in the work to help me out more. I really like it when they mark up my paper a lot and not just answer their peer review questions. I make plenty of grammatical mistakes so maybe there should be a few peer review questions on sentence fluency and other grammatical errors. I also like the peer review questions that talk about topic sentences because I tend to have trouble with my topic sentences. The best way to have an effective peer review is when everyone does their work, the more precise everyone is the more helpful the peer review is. I think talking about each paper for 15 mins. is good because some people have papers that have more to talk about and other don’t. With this next research paper that’s supposed to be 8 to 10 pages it should be really easy to talk for 15 mins. on each person’s paper. Overall I think that the peer review is fun because it is fun to see what other are writing. Also it’s fun to compare and contrast different writing styles. I liked the peer reviews and overall they are beneficial in helping us to revise our papers.

Peer Review

Peer review has a new meaning to me now than before.  That phrase used to have a negative connotation when I heard it but now I have come to realize the effectiveness of peer review.  Before I always thought of it as an opportunity of someone to downplay someone's hard work.  Now I see it was an opportunity to help and receive help some others.  A mutual service in a sense.  The reviewer has the responsibility to correct and advise the essay he is reviewing and in turn he learns about writing style and has just helped someone improve their essay.  The same is for the writer, to be able to recieve critical responses lets us see our essay from a different perspective and thus improve the clarity and strength of it.  I enjoyed the opportunity to review my peer's essays and have mine reviewed as well.  I found that I had overlooked many key points and grammatical errors that I would have overwise overlooked.  I always try to be open to critizism, even the negative and unproductive ones.  The same responsibilities of a reader and writer apply here in which we must take account for bias and try to get the positive side of the critizism.  "Take everything with a grain of salt" I always heard growing up, look for the best in everything.  This is why I believe attitude plays a big part in peer review.  In conclusion, I found peer review effective and rewarding.

Peer Review-Sterling Paulson

My first experience with an in-class peer review has been this Writing 150 course. However, in the past I have found that having a peer, parent, or teacher proofread my writing outside of class has been very beneficial. It is an effective way of having a potential audience member examine my thesis and logic for quality. It is has also been beneficial for me because I often make grammar errors or just leave out words unintentionally, and often times I do not catch these mistakes because my mind tends to automatically fill them in or correct them while I am reading. Thanks to having others review my writing, these errors are often caught before I begin my final draft. I have found that both of these benefits have held true with our in-class peer reviews. With my opinion editorial, I got very helpful feedback not just from my peers but from the instructor that helped me make a more effective argument and appeal better to my audience. With the rhetorical analysis, I received feedback that helped me examine my word choice and thesis and make appropriate corrections that improved my essay. With both of these papers, I was made aware of grammar and phrasing errors that I had yet to recognize. So with this being said, I believe that peer review is very beneficial. It helps the writer receive input and feedback from a microcosm audience, and thus it helps the writer tailor his or her argument to be most effective to the target. The only reservation that I have with peer review is that it requires not just work from the writer, but it also requires an attentive reviewer. While I have been lucky enough to get good feedback in our WRTG 150 course, there have been times in high school that I either received unhelpful, non-specific feedback or insincere feedback, such as one case where a reviewer likely did not even read my essay, just telling me that it was “good.” Overall, I would recommend continuance of our current peer review process in this course because I have seen great benefits from it.

feedback

i personally love peer review! it is an opportunity to have your paper read by others who most likely have a writing style much different than your own, and naturally will find things to fix in your paper that you didn't think of. this is especially helpful for me because i tend to have long, wordy sentences that can turn a reader around. this poses a particular problem, because as we discussed in class, it is the writer's responsibility to present the reader with a clearly stated argument {which is not always my case}.
the only critique i have of peer review is that it sometimes seems to run a little long, but in some of the reviews we utilized every minute! so i think the structure of the reviews in class works well, and i don't think i would amend anything about it!
another wonderful component of peer review is the opportunity to read peers works, and see where they are at. as i mentioned earlier, almost always the writing style of a peer will vary from your own, this ensures a novel experience. The articles are presented to you in a way that is different from your first impression, and more layers are added to your original understanding. we also have the chance to recognize things in other papers that could be weaknesses in our own writing and gain a greater understanding of what effect that has on our own analyses.

Peer Review

An important part of writing is the review process. For me it's usually a hard process of what to cut out and add in. Since most of my writing has been done while pursuing education, I have had many opportunities to experience the joys of peer review. For me peer reviewing has always been a mixed bag. For this class it's been helpful, but in the past I've had experiences where it's felt like a burden. Mostly what I've found is that its largely dependent on the one's contributing. If it's viewed like a chore, it becomes a chore for everyone involved. If there's sincere interest, there's usually good collaboration that comes into play and the process becomes an amazing tool.
I remember one experience I had in high school where I was basically told that my paper was "good". There was no substantiated feedback other than him saying that and he hadn't even really started his own paper. In this experience I resented just being assigned to the same group as he was. I know that for sure I'm not the best, but at least I try to give analysis and help out whoever I'm working with.
Another problem I've found is when views conflict. In our opinion editorial I was told in the writing center that my thesis didn't necessarily need to foreshadow the rest of the paper. I'm glad that I didn't listen to the advice given and stuck to what my teacher wanted and what the rubric was graded on. Something I learned was to take everything with a grain of salt. For the most part there are good feedback and pointers that do wonders for a paper, but on the flipside, it's important to remember that there isn't such a thing as a perfect reviewer.

Benefits of peer reviews

In the past I have never really enjoyed peer review. It always seemed scary like your peers were going to tear apart your paper and you make you feel stupid. So far this semester I have enjoyed the peer review. I think that it has been beneficial in writing our papers. Peer review gives us the opportunity to help each other be more successful in our writing. As reviewers it is your responsibility help your peers out and help them better their paper. I think that as we review others it also helps us to become better writers because it helps us look for things in the paper that can strength our writing or make it weaker. As reviewers we can better know what to expect in our own papers because we reviewed others like it and we can see what works and what doesn’t. I also think that reviewing is a good way for us to help each other become better writers by pointing out our weaknesses (gently) and our strengths. I like in class that the review begins with positive aspects of the papers and is then followed by critiquing. This helps me to know that my paper wasn’t awful and points out the few fine tuning items that we may need to address before it is final. I like the review sheets that we are given because it helps the reviewers know what to look for and then it helps them to organize the discussion in class. Overall I think that peer review is effective and it has been useful this semester.