To me, getting out of my comfort zone is trying things that I have not tried before and/or trying things that I have had bad experiences with in the past.
This was my sixth daybook entry and was a response to an article that I read which was titled Responding to Critical Writing. While I believe that this is a good example of critical reading, I have placed this artifact under the Getting Out of Your Comfort Zone tab because this daybook entry was a response to an article on peer feedback. Throughout this semester we used peer feedback, however, it was a little different than using peer feedback in high school. This daybook entry explains how I had experienced peer feedback multiple times in high school and did not like using the process. By reading and analyzing this article I was able to open my mind up to using my peers to critique my work and make revisions. I also explained in this entry that in the past I did not like using my peers' feedback mainly because there were many cases in which my peers would have me change things that I thought did not need to be fixed. Overall, this daybook entry helped me throughout the course by making more open and accepting of peer feedback.
This was a rough draft of my third research post along with some peer feedback and a reflection on what I was struggling with. The actual daybook entry is the rough draft and the peer feedback was done in class. Although I had been skeptical of using peer feedback in the past, this experience helped me learn that peer feedback can be helpful. Not only did my peers tell me what to fix but they also told me what was good about my blog post. I learned that I was doing very well at providing evidence, however, I had no use of my multimodal tools. Overall this daybook entry and peer feedback exercise taught me that peer feedback, while not always the best, can be a good tool to use in order to find errors in your work.