Peer Evaluations

Last week we did some peer evaluating within our groups. We took a look at our first assignment which was a paper about how technology and how it has evolved throughout our lives. I found that working within our groups really helped me personally because I found it very useful to have others looking at my paper. I found that when others read my paper they saw mistakes that I didn't. They also gave me good ideas as to how to make the paper better. I find it hard to proof read my own paper because sometimes when it makes sense to me it sometimes doesnt make sense to the audience that is reading it. It helps me out when others can ask questions about what something is suppose to mean. I can then re-do the part of the paper that may be confusing to others and hopefully re-word it to give it a better understanding. I also enjoyed having more than one person read my paper. Of course having one person read it is better than having nobody read it but with us having 4 people to a group only helps out the peer evaluation days.

Klass Article

After reading the Klass article I found it to be true. Anytime you go to see the doctor or you have to go to the hospital, it seems that the doctors are talking in a different to each other. I've been in te hopsital a few times having ro stay over night ateast 3 diferent times and when the doctor would come in and check up on me, they would talk to each other using expressions instead of talking in a way that I could understand. I also agree with Klass in the fact that doctos use baseball terms. I've seen it on television shows when they talk about throwing a perfect game which means you didn't lose any patients that day/night. I also think that using this type of language when around the patient can be positive and negative. I think it is negative in the fact that it doesn't help the patient understand what is wrong and can frustrate them. On the other, hand if doctors do not use the medical language in certain situations, the patient could become worked up over nothing. For example, if doctors want to run some check-ups on some illnesses just as a precaution and they tell the patient but he misinterprets it as something more serious, then that gets the patient worked up over nothing.