Role Play Assignment

Taby Andreski

1. As the summarizer, my classmates wrote two very good but different papers. One
classmate wrote about a video game, the other was about issues in the medical field.
One fact about the video game paper was that video games can actually teach a person
a good life lessons and is not as bad as they make them out to be. The fact from the
medical field issues was that safety is not the only concern in the field. A shortage of
nurses and errors made is also a huge factor to take into account. Both papers wrote a
thesis that lead on to the rest of the papers. The video game paper said background
information and how it was not a bad game and the medical paper blatantly stated that
there are so many concerns that need to be addressed other than the safety of the
workers. The video game paper left me with the question of if any other video games
are good that people make out to be bad. The medical paper left me with the question
about how many issues there really are and what the common person does not know.

2. As the positive reinforcer, both classmates described exactly what their paper was going
to be about and a lot of background information. Transitions flowed and the thesis
explained what the paper was going to be about. The strongest aspect of the video
game paper was the description behind the game, and really let the reader know what it
was, and what it was about. The strongest aspect of the medical paper was the facts to
back everything up. It proved, from facts that there are other huge issues other than
just safety we need to be aware of in the hospital. Two things that I noticed my
classmates did that I want to incorporate is a bit more of facts from accredited sources
and also replacing some words with more fitting ones.

3. As the devil’s advocate, I believe that two things my classmates could have done to
make their paper stronger was to really check back and correct grammatical errors and
also an arrangement of paragraph structures. I feel my contributions were beneficial
because I pointed out small things, that as the writer we look over, where someone else
can spot them and help out with getting a better grade. Some information that they
could have included to help the reader would just be proper grammar and also some
more evidence to back up what they are writing about.

4. As the listener, I noticed that my paper did not flow as well as I had thought it did. Two
examples that clarity would have been beneficial is making sentences less choppy and
better use of language. An example of a muddy area for me would be repetition. Two
examples would be when I talk about how much the ACT weighs in the first paragraph
and also in the second paragraph, repeating the same idea of test anxiety. I plan on
making my paper flow and getting rid of choppy sentences.