How can you provide meaningful
feedback to your peer?
In order for students to be successful writers, they have to first learn how to peer review/edit. Peer Editing is working with someone your own age to help improve, revise and edit his/her writing. In the video What Is Peer Editing? and in the slideshow Peer Edit With Perfection Tutorial, are three steps to peer editing.
Step 1 - Compliments
Always start your peer editing with a compliment, "I like your topic" or "you used lots of great detail, it really brought your paper to life." Your helping someone change their hard work, you probably would not like it if someone was being a "negative Nancy" about your writing. Remember to speak to them how you would want to be spoken to.
Step 2 - Suggestions
If you find something in their writing that you think is wrong, make a suggestion on how to fix it. Remember to be positive when making suggestions. Instead of "the whole thing did not make sense," be specific and say, "this sentence is a bit confusing, if you change the wording and add some more details it will make more sense." Some great things to make suggestions about would include, word choice, using detail, organization within the paragraphs, sentence lengths and the writer sticks to one topic.
Step 3 - Corrections
Corrections simply just means, checking for misspelling, grammar mistakes, incorrect punctuation and incomplete or run-on sentences. Here are some excellent, short hand, symbols for correcting a paper and how they would be used within the sentence.
When peer reviewing someones writing, it is easy to get carried away and be a "Picky Patty" or a "Mean Margaret." In the video Writing Peer Review Top 10 Mistakes explains why that is not the way to peer review. You do not want to be to picky when peer reviewing because no one is perfect and we all make mistakes. That is what peer review is for, to help fellow classmates learn. On the other hand, if someone is reviewing your writing, you do not want to be a "Whatever William." In other words, you do not want to sit there and not care what they have to say. After all, it is your grade and your hard work. So, remember to listen to what your peer reviewer has to say and take some of the advise. A "Mean Margaret" is someone who is mean or negative about the way he/she edits the writing. You cannot be mean when it comes to peer review because no one will take your advise or listen. If you are the one editing the writing, do not get offended if the writer does not take all of your advise. It is his/her paper and if they do not want to change something they don't have to.
Kelly,
ReplyDeleteI really like they way you went into detail about what you learned. The way you listed the steps and went into detail with each individual one would be very easy to understand for someone who hasn't read or watched these materials. You obviously knew your material and were passionate about what you wrote. keep up the good work!