Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Blog Post #3

What is Peer Editing?
Peer Edit with Perfection Tutorial
The video, What is Peer Editing? and the slideshow Peer Edit with Perfection Tutorial both explain peer editing and talk about the three steps to peer editing. The video and slideshow both explained that a peer is someone who is your own age. They both stated that peer editing is normally done with someone who is in your class and it is done to help improve, revise, and edit his or her work. Both the video and the slideshow explain what the three steps to peer editing are. The first step is compliments. The number one rule while editing is to stay positive. When editing the work of your peers, you should always start with a compliment on what you think he or she did well on. An example of a compliment would be saying, "I really loved your topic." The second step to peer editing is suggestion. You could explain to your peer ways to make their writing better with things like word choice, detail, and organization. An example of a suggestion would be giving advice. You could suggest that instead of using the word good, maybe you can use the word exceptional. The last step to peer editing is correction. When peer editing you should always check for grammar, sentence structure, and spelling.

Writing Peer Review: Top 10 Mistakes
The second video was called Writing Peer Review: Top 10 Mistakes. I loved this video because it was funny and it also pointed out some things that I feel are important for students to learn about before peer editing. The video was of elementary students who were showing us the peer editor we don't want to be. I loved the example of being a Picky Patty. A Picky Patty peer editor would be someone who picks out pointless mistakes like having too big of a space between those two words or you have too many of the word "and" in your paper. Next was Whatever William. William had no interest in the help his peer was trying to give him. When she would point out one of his mistakes he would just say "whatever" instead of trying to fix it. Another example shown of a peer editor you don't want to be was Mean Margret. Mean Margret would use ugly words such as stupid or dumb when editing a peer's paper. She would say things like "your topic is dumb". It is not nice to put down students in that way. When peer editing you are supposed to help students and point out the good and the bad in their paper. One of my favorites while watching this video was Defense Dave. Dave would take everything personally that his peer editor was trying to help him on. Peer editing is a very helpful thing that every student should experience. When being a peer editor you don't need to be a Picky Patty, Mean Margret, pushy, speedy, or defensive. Peer editing is used so we can help our peers out and make them stronger writers with our criticism.
Peer Editing

2 comments:

  1. I liked that you mentioned the different characters that the kids had in Top 10 Mistakes. I thought this video was really cute and funny. The kids captured the different styles of peer editing perfectly! I'm sure we can all relate somehow. I also liked that you had links to the videos that you were talking about in each section. One thing that I might have changed was in your first paragraph where you were talking about suggestions. The sentence "an example of a suggestion...."did not seem to flow with what you were trying to say. It made sense but it made the statement a little awkward to read. Possibly just leave out what "examples of a suggestion" are would help with sentence flow. Other than that minor bit I thought you did a wonderful job on this assignment. Keep up the good work!

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