Nicola Caroli

I was very interested in the subject of the course and found Thomas Farber to be a good role model for this genre. For me the course could be much longer, with set tasks of one type/ one task per unit, for example just writing, then reading/watching video about the genre and writing about that etc, rather than mixing the two because then I chose the greatest priority. Basically I would like the space to go into more detail, to reflect more on what I’m doing. I felt it was very rushed and just tried to get my assignment in at the last minute without having had time to really work at it. I would have prefered in the beginning to just correspond with one/one group of peers so that they can support/guide the beginning process of the text and later on expose my text to other peers. As the time was so short, it was a very active mode, rather than an associative flow and I would have liked even more  constraints, so that I could concentrate on one thing. Similarly Jane’s comments were excellent but addressed so many indepth things at once that I sometimes ended up not heeding any of them. The peer conversations were great as long as we knew exactly  what we were talking about and to what purpose, again it might even be good to set certain subjects we should talk about which then get incorporated into the writing excercises for example.

I don’t feel I’ve produced a text I can do anything with but the course has opened my perspective to the genre, to weaknesses and strengths of my writing. So I learnt things I can use for texts in the future. I learnt from reading the other peoples text where I often found that people had similar difficulties to mine, or different strenghts and weaknesses.

Regarding the text I learnt most from Jane’s comments.

I already wrote a feedback about the technology aspect of the course earlier on.

Overall I’m very pleased I took this course, I learnt something about a new genre, about my writing and would like to do another course with peer to peer university. Thank you for making this learning experience possible.