Commentary on Reader Response Essay

During one of the weeks of the semester, we were required to write a reader response essay as part of the assessment requirements. My process of crafting the essay was relatively smooth: the summary practices provided my Ms. Anita beforehand really helped provide the groundwork on how to tackle the assignment, and her notes provided the general requirements on how one should write this essay. With the sufficient summary practices, writing a short paragraph in the first part of the reader response essay was relatively smooth sailing. 

The personal response to the article, however, proved to be of challenge: I faced problems trying to phrase my ideas to the academic style of writing, and at some points of time during the composition, I was at a loss as to what I should write. After searching for and reading up on articles that addressed similar issues as the one that I chose to write on, I managed to grasp some inspiration and I proceeded to compose the essay in a few hours. 

During peer review, I was really worried that my essay was badly-written, but surprisingly, Aaron (the really nice classmate who did peer review of my essay) liked it, and left a few compliments and some suggestions for improvement. I was definitely relieved. Polishing it up and uploading the second draft got a positive response from Ms. Anita as well. That was when I felt that things are really turning out better than I thought. Following Ms. Anita's comments, I fine-tuned some parts of the essay and then happily submitted it for grading. 

Looking back, it was definitely nice to see that the process of composing the reader response essay turned out pretty smooth, and the effort put in the summary practices definitely paid off. 

Signing off, 

Lyon