Each article or video discussed the correct way to peer review. Peer reviewing is helping someone your age, usually in your class, correct his or her writing. There are a few important steps to follow while peer reviewing. The first step is to give compliments. You always want to be positive while editing someone else's writing. The best way to maintain a positive attitude is to imagine how you would feel with someone editing your paper. The next step is to give helpful suggestions that will improve the substance of the writing. The important part of giving suggestions is to make sure you are being specific. Vague recommendations are not very helpful in any situation. The final step is to make corrections. These corrections can involve grammar, spelling and sentence structure mistakes. By following those three steps, you can be a very effective peer editor.
I think one of the reasons people are bad peer editors is because they are fearful. Correcting someone your own age can be intimidating and I believe that is what hinders us from fully editing someone's work. I know when I peer review, I get nervous that my corrections may be wrong and therefore I am not helping. Another aspect of peer review is the fact that you are critiquing the work of a classmate. Sometimes being criticized by your classmate can be harder to swallow than being criticized by your teacher, and I think that is another reason we hesitate to truly correct our peers. I think if we attack peer reviewing as truly helping our peers instead of criticizing them, then we will become effective peer editors.
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I really agree with you on the point of staying positive while editing someone else's work. Many people at my old high school didn't seem to undertand that they were being a little hurtful with their comments. So I am glad our professor is making a point of reviewing the steps of editing someone else's work.
ReplyDelete"I think one of the reasons people are bad peer editors is because they are fearful." I couldn't agree more!
ReplyDeleteGood job including links. Instead of starting the post with "Each article or video discussed..." maybe you could insert the link in place of that. First talk about Paige Ellis's then specifically discuss What Is Peer Editing. It gives more, direct credit to those sources and will help the post read smoothly.
"The best way to maintain a positive attitude is to imagine how you would feel with someone editing your paper." I definitely agree with this. This is exactly what I do when I am peer editing. Great job.
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