Peer editing is working with someone who is in your own age group, usually in a class setting, to help improve, revise, and edit your work. The best way to approach peer editing is to have a positive and helpful attitude. While peer editing, it is very important to remember that you are helping to change someone else's work, so being nice and suggesting useful changes is the best way to go. Giving compliments, making suggestions, and also making corrections are three easy steps to remember while peer editing. The post important thing to remember while peer editing is to always stay positive and to think about the other persons feelings and how you would want another person to edit your writing.
When I peer edit my own classmates blog posts in EDM 310 I will remember the three steps: give compliments, make suggestions, and also make corrections. Giving compliments is the first step I will use while peer editing my classmates blog because who doesn't love a compliment? A compliment consists of telling the person whose blog I am editing what he or she did well in their writing. Making suggestions while peer editing is very important, suggesting consists of giving the person I am editing specific and detailed ideas about how to make their work better. Correcting is the last step I will use when peer editing my classmates. Corrections consist of checking my peers blog for any spelling or grammar mistakes, missing punctuation, and sentence structure. I think that the importance of peer editing is to allow people to correct and improve each others work so that they can be the best they can be. It is important for children and for adults too, to learn constructive criticism so that they can take it and improve themselves and make themselves better not only in writing but with other things as well.
Each blog post assignment is required to have working links to your sources, as outlined in Writing A Quality Blog Post. Please fix this. Also, "Google Search" is not an adequate source for pictures. You got that picture from some website, so the website you got it from is your source!
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ReplyDeleteGreat post! You defined peer editing well, and I enjoyed your three steps to peer editing. It is always important to give compliments first! If you start off negative, then the person you are reviewing may not want to read any further. The only thing I would add is maybe a reference to the videos we watched, in addition to a link! Overall, you did great!