Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Blog Post 3- How Can You Provide Meaningful Feedback to Your Peers?

In order to ameliorate one's work, students need to understand the procedures of peer editing, along with what not to do while reviewing others' work. Peer editing simply means revising and improving the work of students of similar age. In order to positively review another students work, one must first compliment what the student did correctly, before giving suggestions as to what the student can improve on. When giving suggestions, students need to focus on the author's word choice, attention to detail, organization, and how well the assigned topic is covered.  After complimenting the work's positives and suggesting how to improve the imperfections, the peer editor can make corrections to the author's work. This includes correcting spelling and grammar mistakes, along with correcting missing punctuation and incorrect sentence structure. In order to peer edit effectively, students must first compliment the work, then suggest any improvements that should be made, and finally correct any mistakes that should be made.

In order to do a quality peer review, even when suggesting how to improve a peer's work, the peer editor must stay positive. Rather than being picky when peer editing, students need to accept that others have different writing styles and instead spend time on the paper and give specific examples of how to improve the major issues. Not every piece of advice will be taken, so reviewers should not get upset if his or hers input is not followed. Likewise, the student who is being given advice, should not take any criticism personally. Students simply need to stay on task and spend a significant amount of time while peer editing and revising work. For a peer review to be effective, students need to learn how to give and take advice.

4 comments:

  1. Way to be on top of the assignments and ahead of the due dates!

    Remember to put links and pictures into every post. You can always go back and edit your posts once you post them!

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  2. I agree with the statement you made about students having different writing styles. All people think differently, that is what makes reading others blogs interesting. Giving and taking advice is a vital part of being successful in anything you do. This blog post can be very helpful information to anyone. Good luck to you in the future, and I hope to see you in class.

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  3. Megan, you made many really valid points, and I think that you had really good word choice! One thing that you mentioned that I have always been guilty of is trying to hurry through a peer review without really taking the time to read it and give a quality review. I will try to be more conscious of this in the future. Good post!

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  4. Your content is thorough and well written, but there are still no links included or mention of the videos you watched about peer editing.

    Remember to include an appropriate image into each post as well as Title and Alt tags.

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