Peer Editing

When writing this essay there were many things that played a role in the direction and opinions I took. To start my essay I focused on writing about how technology has advanced so fast in our culture and agreed with Vicente about how this isn’t such a great thing. I liked the idea that the human factor is a dangerous thing that could grow out of control if we are not careful. However as I began to read “The Cat’s Cradle” I noticed how Vonnegut shared this view with Vicente, but also had other interesting topics. I really like the Bokononist religion in the story because it made me feel like Vonnegut was comparing it to our own government which let me focus on the interesting idea of our democracy being a sham. The structure of my essay was to show the disadvantages of the human factor while giving other ideas through Vonnegut’s text about how deceived we as a people could all be. I wish that I may have noticed the ideas about the Bokononist religion earlier in the text because it may have helped me to come away with other hidden meanings. I liked the peer editing with blogs more that doing it in class because it allowed me to read a few other essays and not have to rush to finish during a set time period I class. Being able to thoroughly read another students text allowed me to see the ideas others were taking away from the text and also give little bits of advice that weren’t rushed. Overall the exercise seemed like a good way to look deeper into things I could fix with my own writing while at the same time helping other students to work on theirs.