workshops :) or :/

For me workshops are like school sometimes I like it, and other times I do not. There are several reasons I am back and forth between fully committing to a love or hate relationship with workshops. The main reason I like workshops is because, they give me as a writer another set of eyes. The main reason I dislike workshops is because, legitimate full functioning workshops do not always take place in class.

I have to admit even though; some of my peers probably just skim through my work cause they really could care less. If he or she finds one misspelled word or sentence fragment in the end it bettered my paper. I am awful with over looking minor details as those so this is when work shopping comes in handy. I feel I benefit the most when I get comments on my writing style, or things my reader enjoyed. Workshops help me realize my strengths and weaknesses in writing. Although, it sucks to see the paper I worked so hard to create marked up and down with pen. Obviously those corrections/inputs are a positive thing to be brought to my attention.

Unfortunately, these out comes are only possible with a full functioning workshop. What I mean by this is the student reading your has to care enough to actually read it. Trust me I have been the problem before like many of my classmates. Maybe they had a bad morning, something more important is weighing on their mind, or honestly they just might be bored out of their mind to really give a person good criticism. Criticism is another reason I am kind of iffy about workshops. There has been plenty of times I thought a paper just blew, but who am I to tell someone that. To be perfectly honest I just do not have guts to rain all over someone’s parade. This is a major negative in peer editing because, there are plenty of people out there like me, or even worse. There is a great possibility a student reviewed my paper and thought this paper is good enough to wipe my butt. Yet, all they did was fixed a couple of misspelled words, tossed in some commas, and drew a smiley face at the top. This is why I think workshops can be a waste of time.

This concludes why I feel workshops are something I participate in when needed, but I do not take to seriously.