Blog Post #3

Peer Editing

 

Peer editing is a teaching technique in which students make compliments, suggestions, and corrections to help someone of their own age improve, revise, and edit their own work.
When peer editing you should always stay positive. An easy way to stay positive would be think about how you would feel while your work was being edited. Always start out with a compliment, next give suggestions, and then corrections. Many people are worried about other peoples' feelings instead of helping them improve the quality of their writing. Sometimes when writing, we simply over look things that "another set of eyes" would catch. Proofreading is one way to catch most of the errors on your own. I personally proofread everything before I submit it in for someone else to look at. I also often find that I missed an error afterwards. An easy idea for peer editing would be to read the article out loud first in order to catch any "easy errors". This would be a time to see if the grammar and punctuations are correct.

In our EDM310 class we will be critiquing our fellow classmates blog posts, which will be great practice since we are all working towards being teachers. Editing and correcting people will be something we will do often in that field. You should definitely decide which is the best way to give your suggestions to the peer you are editing for. There is no wrong way to do this, but you should always be sure that which ever way you choose does not embarrass or hurt the other person.


The following are some questions you could ask:

•  Did the author stay on topic?
• Were the sentences clear and concise?
• Were the sentences properly punctuated?
• Were there any grammar errors?
• Were there any spelling errors?
• Did the writer have good word choice?
• How were the details?
• Was it organized in sequence?
• Could it be more interesting?
• Are the sentences complete thoughts with subject verb agreement?

REMEMBER:

Stay Positive- try and make suggestions and corrections in a positive way.

Be Specific- give the author specific ideas on how to improve their writing.

Be Sure to use all three steps
1. Compliments
2. Suggestions
3. Corrections