How do I feel about peer reviews?

Hello everyone, I chose to talk a little about what my feelings are towards peer reviews. To me I really like the idea of peer reviews, because it gives me a chance to know what they think of my paper and they can give me good critical critisism. We get so involved in just the writing of the paper, that we sometimes miss some detailed areas of importance such as small things like punctuation or commas. I had a hard time coming up with a good solid thesis statement, so I asked someone to help me with it, and that helped alot, two heads are better than one. When we get down to just writing and putting all our thoughts down on paper, sometimes we just get away and write down whatever, but when someone else reads the paper, they will sometimes catch things like run on sentences or maybe where there should have been quotation marks around a statement. I found that sometimes reading the paper backwards helps to in order to catch mis-spelling and periods.

My experiences with peer reviews have always been helpful, I would rather have someone else read my paper to give me more ideas, or just point out my errors. To me though in order to give peer reviews to someone I feel like I am putting their paper down, so I try to be gentle, but for someone to give me some good critisism is always a good thing for myself. To me the way that I think of peer review is for a way of learning. Thank you for reading.

Unit 6 blog posting- June 16, 2010

Hello everyone, I am just sitting here trying to figure out again about this blogging, hopefully it goes into my correct blog. I am sharing with you what I have learned or personally been dealing with in the six weeks so far. I have learned quite a bit of information such as how to use the library, and maneuver around in it. I have alot to learn and experience with the online library yet but I know now how to come up with different area to do research. When I first started learning about thesis statements I had a heck of a time, but we just have to remember to know what is involved in a thesis statement. Your thesis statement should be in the introduction of your paper, and should involve the main points of your paper, what you are going to talk about. Learned also how to do citations, references and also what plagiarsm involves and that it is a very serious offense which could lead to a lawsuit. Also learned about prewriting strategies and how to use them to generate ideas for my first draft. The most difficult thing that I am dealing with now is citatations and references, and how to do proper APA formatting.

I think that my ideas about this topic will help me not just to know about Fetal Alcohol Syndrome but what it is actually about. I am studying to go into Medical Assisting so whatever helpful information I can get about a medical problem the better off I will be. If I should ever come across in my field of work someone that is pregnant and has problems with alcohol I will be able to inform them and let them know of the risks associated with drinking while pregnant.

Unit 5 blog post- June 10, 2010

Hello everyone, I chose how is school influencing your life at or up to this point. When I first looked into going back to school I was a little query about it, because I did not know what to expect and at my age too. I knew I had to do something though, because I wanted a stable and reliable job that I could call my career. The academic advisor that I talked tohelped me alot and eased all my thoughts and fears of boing back to school, he was very helpful. I never thought that I would enjoy going back to school, because I did not really like school and was not a "A" student, but so far I have really surprised myself and enjoy it now. I have learned so much such as with my writing classes, to be able to sit down and feel confident on having to write a report. Being in school gave me a higher self-esteem because I proved to myself already that I can do this, and that's all that matters is that I am doing this for myself. I have learned so much with my Medical Assisting classes, and I find everything so very interesting, and now when my significant other goes to the doctor I can somewhat read hs lab results and know what they are somewhat talking about. There are many moreobstacles that I will have to face before this is all over and I will hopefully graduate, but I know for myself that I can do it.

Unit 4 blog posting- June 2, 2010

As we move onto unit , we are discussing plagiarism I picked out consider some of the real-world plagiarism issues you have learned of that include professionals. How should those issues be handled? Some of the real-world plagiarism issues that I have learned of that included professionals are when college students have to write and essay on a certain topic. I also came across in my creer already is when someone alters clinical records by just scribbling out or using whit out instead of the proper way of crossing the errorout and initializing and put in the correct answer or form. Another area where plagiarism might happen is law enforcement, where a officer might falsify a report. I think that when it comes to political issues there is alot of plagiarism because that person wants the credit of the other opponents ideas to win votes for themselves. To handle these kind of issues, documentation in clinical records the person should be talked to about it and if it continues to happen they should receive a written warning. As for law enforcement, the officer that is guilty shoul be suspended with an investigation. As far as political issues and plagiarism I really do not know how they should be handled, except to ask or documentation that their ideas are their own.