Writing Sample Exchange

[bar_scene_gambler]

There don't appear to be too many people wandering the forum right now, so perhaps this isn't a great time to ask, but I was wondering if anyone wants to set up an anonymous writing sample exchange. Obviously we're all undergraduates here, so the input from others might not be as helpful as, say, input from a faculty member or graduate student, but I feel like if we have a large group of individuals all commenting on the same writing samples, some good comments and advice may come out of it.

I have ideas on how to put a sample exchange into effect, but I'd like to know whether or not you guys want to participate first before I do anything. 

[Narziss]

Just out of curiosity, what topic/figure/s is your sample on?

[confuzzled]

Are you sure that you want it to be anonymous? I would be (irrationally?) afraid of someone joining just to steal another person's work and submit it as their own sample . And I don't know about anyone else, but I would not feel competent to judge the content of work outside a few select areas (basically Normative Ethics, Free Will, Analytical/historical work on Nietzsche, and maybe some topics in Feminist Philosophy and Mind). So you might need to filter it by area.

 

Anyway, I would like to do this! My sample is on desire-satisfaction theories of the good.

[bar_scene_gambler]

confuzzled: I know that your concerns are valid, but, let's be honest, what is the likelihood of any of our writing samples being ground-breaking enough to be worth stealing? And, setting that aside, what are the chances that you'll end up with a writing sample in an area that you'll be familiar enough with to actually want to steal? And just because you aren't, say, a scholar of Chinese philosophy does not mean that you might not have something valuable to say about the clarity, structure, or cohesion of a writing sample on Chinese philosophy.

Narziss: My sample is an essay comparing Laozi's and Kant's ethics. 

[bar_scene_gambler]

It seems like there aren't enough people around to make it worth anyone's time. I guess the best thing to do would be to wait until there are more people browsing the forum before setting up something like this (if there are more in the future that is).