Blog Post #3: How Can You Provide Meaningful Feedback to YHour Peers?

I feel that peer editing is important because it is an arena where students can learn without the pressure of disappointing their professor. It is great to have the ability to receive another’s perceptions of the materials you all are learning in class. One student may pay closer attention to an important detail that another overlooked. By having a dialogue we can learn what one another though was most important about each assignment. I learned that peer editing involves giving compliments, suggestions, and corrections to a peer’s blog. There was a great emphasis on remaining positive when editing a peer’s writings. It is suggested that peers should start with a compliment of the work they are editing. I love this idea. It allows us to avoid fixating on errors. Clarity and specificity are needed when providing suggestions. The final step in editing seems to be the easiest. Correcting errors in grammar and punctuation do not require creativity. This step requires leaning on the comfortable rule of grammar we have been drilled to remember since grade school. The problem is that according to input method and the computer program used, some text can be changed without the author’s immediate knowledge. There is an emphasis on providing a quality peer review to ensure universal growth for peers.