The Peer Review

In my understanding, Peer Review Process is useful method for student to show their abilities in writing. First of all, students should know that the peers as good as their teacher will read and comment before being of the Peer Review Process and it is seperated in four steps:
- Read peers' writing and write a response
- exchange oral comments
- write comments
- repeat and complete a first draft.
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peer review can improve writing.

Peer review can improve writing.
Dear all,

Having read the Peer Review Process written by Robert Mittan, I found that the peer review is a technique to help students improve their writing. Students can get comments, reactions, and questions from their classmates in what they think about their writing so that their revision would be made afterwards.

Apart from this, I have learnt ways to guide students in responding to each other’s writing. I think the four-step ways are very useful for each student to communicate with their friends and encourage them to extend abilities in their writing. Mitten, the writer of the text, has also taught us to know other ways for using the peer review process such as integrating the peer review process into the course, beginning with a few sample tasks, and allowing plenty of time for both written responses and oral discussion of reviews.

As for my experience, friends I would like to tell all of you that since I studied English writing course, my past English teachers have never guided and taught me how to use the peer review process to improve my writing. The teachers only relied on themselves, their experiences and their knowledge background to evaluate my works. Sometimes I disagreed with their suggestions but dared not argue as it could possibly affect the evaluation of my works. However, I still feel good to see that we have a chance to know it.
Take care
Anucha

The Peer Review Process

Hello All,

I agree with doing a peer review in case we can use our skill of writing, reading, listening, speaking and thinking (Mittan, 1989, p. 218). At the same time we can improve these skills of ours, and we will consider to readers more -- how to make them can read and understand our writing.

To be as a writer, I can know what my friends, not only Ajan Karnchanok, think of my writing by their responses. Somebody's responses may be different from others'. So this variety of response can be more useful than just one response.

To be as a reviewer, I can see others' writing -- what they think and the way they write. It will be useful for me too. But I am not sure how to give others responses or comments because I am not an expert of writing. And I am not sure if my responses will be correct and useful for them. And what if my responses are wrong? On the other hand, how I can know that the responses I get from others are correct and believable.

In this article, Mittan seems to suggest reviewers that their responses should be positive (p. 213). I can understand that negative responses may destroy writiers' confidence or whatever. That's not good. But how the review works if we only have positive responses. How I can let the writers know if they have some mistake and how I can know if I have some mistake too. (I may misunderstand the meaning of positive response.)

I think peer review is not an easy work, but it is good, and I should try.

See you guys in class

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About qualitative translation research

Dear all,

For qualitative research, I think it resemble case study. Steps of qualitative research are also like quantitative research for example; specification aims, hypothesis, analysis and summarization of the result.

However, I think that the difference between qualitative research and quantitative research is as for qualitative research emphasize substance but quantitative research emphasize data.

Furthermore, the other differences are select samples, the methods of collect data, etc.

Thanks
Best regards,
Jib

qualitative research

Dear all,
I did not attend the Monday class because I have had a sore throat and a high fever. After feeling better today, I called Nong Nid, asking her to explain what Acharn Karnchanok had lectured in the class. Nong Nid told me that Acharn Karnchanok had lectured about the meaning of qualitative research and instucted us to post the meaning of it to the blog.

Before going into details of the qualitative research, I would like to tell all of you that research can be divided into two categories. The first is qualitative and the latter is quantitative. The two are totally different because of their methods and techniques. Qualititative research uses mainly interviews and some key questions as a mean to collect data from a few samples while quantitative research uses mainly the variety of questionnaires as a mean to get data from samples selected . The data obtained will be evaluated by principles of statistics.

Thanks/ Anucha

What is qualitative translation research?

A qualitative translation research is subjective research. The researchers want to know about real situation of a topic, so the participation of researchers in the situation is the main point of this research.

Furthermore, the process of analysis use the researchers' idea through experience. The statistical analysis is not used in the qualitative research.The result is expressed in form on description discovered by the researcher . The qualitative researches are usually met in the social, art or public administration field.


Best Regards
Banna Wanishayanun

What I think qualitative translation research is

Well, I have never maken any researches in my life, also I had never learn about it until now, in the class today. So what I am saying about qualitative translation research is from my little brain.

I think research is a work that a researcher do to get information -- what the most people do or think of something. A qualitative translation research must be a reseach about translation and the results shouldn't be appeared in numberal; it should be appeared in words. (^.^)

I'm sorry I don't know how to explain. And this is all I know and can explain about qualitative translation research at this time.

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A qualitative translation research

Formerly, I think a qualitative TR is a research which have or haven't statistics and numeric. The research can use questionaire, interview and other. The research emphasize the result more process. I think It called a qualitative TR because the result of research use about education.

I confuse between a qualitative TR and a quantitative TR. After I listen Ajan Karn, I understand a qualitative TR.