Blog Post #3

After watching What is Peer Editing, Writing Peer Reviwe Top 10 Mistakes, and reading Peer Edit with Perfection Tutorial, I now have a better understanding of what it means to 'peer edit'. I learned that peer editing can be more fun than stressful. Sometimes its easier to point out what we don't like or what is wrong with the paper, rather than the positive side. It's ok to give feedback, as long as it's positive. Positive feedback is commonly known as constructive criticism. Just make sure when you correct someone, you aren't being a "Picky Patty", or a "Mean Margret".

I think this will not only benefit me as a teacher, but will also be an advantage to my future students as well. It will teach them to catch mistakes on their peer's papers, and their own. By having students edit and evaluate other student's work, they learn to train their eyes on what they don’t want to do in their own essays. As students see and evaluate essays that are missing essential elements or are full of errors, they can see the reasons behind avoiding these errors. The worse the essay is, the more students can “catch.” The more they do this, the more they realize that their own writing “isn’t so bad!” That does not mean that students should be exposed to another student’s “bad” essay. Instead, allow the students to use essays of past students (with no name of course), that way no one is embarrassed.