Assignment 26- Eli Dyer

I've always been good at English. I usually know what sounds right and what doesn't, which is most likely as result from reading so much as a child. However, I've never been good at on-demand writing. I can never think of what I want to write about, which usually results in a boring, halfway done essay. All of my teachers have told me to write essays, told me what I can and can't do, but not one has taught me how to write an essay worth reading. I'm grateful for everything you've done to help prepare us for the AP test, but my biggest takeaway from your class is how to write a well-written, but also entertaining essay.

However, there were some issues with your strategy of peer-reviewing. When everyone grades essays at the same time, there's little variation. But when everyone graded essays individually, the variation surprised me. For one essay, I got 5s, but other people gave me 1s and 2s. When I'm being peer reviewed, I don't want people to give me what everyone else did, I want to be given what they think I deserved.