My Question

Given what you've read for this week (or even from previous weeks), what puzzles you? What are you wrestling with? What questions do you have that others might be able to answer/help you wrestle with?

Even though we talked about this issue in detail in class, I am still not sure about how to integrate peer writing groups into the classroom successfully. I was never a student who liked peer writing or group work in general. It always seemed like the teacher had just decided that they didn't feel like preparing a lecture or didn't have the time to think one up, so instead they just chose to have us all talk it out amongst ourselves. Also, as an English major to be I already wrote pretty well, so whenever I was put in a situation where other students were supposed to critique my work, I never felt that it was very helpful. Either the other students had very little input on my work or they gave advice that was completely incorrect. For these reasons, it is difficult for me to get excited about putting future freshman through an exercise that I feel is like the proverbial blind leading the blind. Has anyone else thought of innovative and credible ways to incorporate group work?