Blog Post 3

How Can You Provide Meaningful Feedback to Your Peers?

What exactly is peer editing? Adriana Zardini defines editing as "making suggestions, compliments, and changes to writing," as shown in her slideshow "Peer Edit with Perfection Tutorial". Since our peers are our classmates, peer editing allows to edit each other's work, therefore allowing us to learn from and teach each other.

"What is Peer Editing?" by nrpatric and "Peer Edit with Perfection Tutorial" outline the three steps of peer editing: compliments, suggestions, and corrections. These steps must be done in order to ensure an effective peer review session. It is easy to see the negative writing qualities before positive, so students must first compliment each other to highlight these positive qualities. Then students will make helpful suggestions before making clear, but not critical, corrections. After all, Again, It is important to remember that peer editing is done so all students can improve their own editing and writing skills.

It is important to remember that peer editing is done so all students can improve their own editing and writing skills. However, peer editing can be dangerous when someone is too critical or too defensive, as shown in the video "Writing Peer Review Top 10 Mistakes" by Tim Bedley. All students must keep positive attitude during peer reviews in order to learn from their peer editing experience. Again, the purpose of peer editing is to make students' work BETTER. As Paige Ellis says in "Blog Assignment 12," "I believe that we are here to help one another achieve success."