How Can You Provide Meaningful Feedback to Your Peers?
How to Peer Edit
Peer Editing is a great tool for students to get feedback from each other in order to help improve their writing. Peer editing is when you work with someone your own age and get feedback from them to help improve, revise, and edit his or her writing. There are three steps in peer editing.
- Compliments. It is so important to stay positive, and to always start with saying what you liked about the writing. Writing can be difficult for some students, and encouraging them with their writing can give them much needed confidence.
- Suggestions. Giving ideas and being specific with your peer are key in peer editing. Offer different word choice options, and help with sentences that seem a little disorganized. Use details, and make sure that writer is staying organized and focused on the topic.
- Corrections. This is my personal favorite step in peer editing. It is easy for a student to read over and over their paper and miss punctuation, grammar, sentences, and spelling errors. Having a peer edit a paper puts a new pair of eyes on the writing and keep see things missed. As a peer editor read through the paper. Circle, underline, and use editing marks to correction errors.
Although some students like to do things on their own. It is so helpful to have another student in your class to edit your papers for you before you turn them into the teacher for grading. I am the type of student who doesn't really like to ask for help from my classmates, because I have been used to doing everything on my own since I was in grade school. However, now I am a college student, getting into my major classes and I must say that is it so important to seek out help and get as much information and help from your classmates. They want the help as well. I've noticed as you get older the more and more you become reliable on the people sitting beside you in class. It is greta that younger students are being taught this so it becomes comfortable to them to ask their friends for help and advice.
Peer Editing Links- available for educational purposes.
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Peer Edit With Perfection Tutorial
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ReplyDeleteI love how it's right to the point. Everything looks good except in the 3rd sentence of 3. Corrections. You said "and keep see things missed" when I think you meant and see key things missed, maybe?
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