A peer is someone your own age. Editing means making suggestions, comments, compliments, and changes to writing. All together peer editing means working with someone your own age to help improve, revise, and edit his or her writing. Peer editing does not come easy to all students, but like anything a person put their mind to, practice makes perfect. I personal think peer editing is an extremely important skill to master and great practice for all students majoring in education because as a teacher, you will have to edit and critique your student's papers.
In the two videos and slide show I watched about peer editing, they stated some very important factors about the proper technique for peer editing someone's paper. The number one rule of peer editing is to ALWAYS stay positive and remember you are helping to improve someone writing, not insult him or her for making errors. There are three important steps to remember when you are peer editing another students writing. The first step is to always start your peer editing with compliments, tell the writer what he or she did well on. Step number two is to make suggestions, give the author some specific ideas about how to make their writing better, remember, be specific and stay positive. The finally step is to make corrections, check your peer's paper for spelling mistakes, grammar mistakes, missing punctuation, and incomplete or run-on sentences.
Working with your classmates to help improve their writing can be fun. But first, you have to learn what it means to "Peer edit" and how to do it correctly. Important things to remember about peer editing is to stay positive and try to make suggestion and corrections in a positive manner. Also, be specific and give the author specific ideas on how to improve his or her writing. And last but not lease be sure to incorporate the three important steps in peer editing such as; compliment, make suggestions and make corrections.
Great post! You were very successful in including the most important steps in peer editing. I agree that it is very important to stay positive when editing someone's personal work. It is a very touchy subject to try and tell someone that they messed up on their own work. But at the same, I do believe that when you need to correct something they need to know it. Even if it seems kind of harsh. So, with that said. Always include links in your post. Make sure it links to whatever videos or articles you have read in regards to your assignment. There were also a few minor grammatical errors in your post such as not adding "s"s at the end of certain words and a few commas. Otherwise, great job!
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