Blog Post #3

How can you provide meaningful feed back to your peers?

Whether writing a blog post, a research paper, or even a short paragraph it is important to have correct grammar, punctuation, and proper word flow. Most people have a good eye for the simple mistakes while reading through their own written work, but for a more accurate assessment a peer review is most effective. A peer review is working with someone your own age such as a classmate or a friend to review, revise, and edit an assignment. Peer reviews are important because they allow for someone else to read through the work and see mistakes or improvements that we as the writer might have missed or have not thought to include. I have learned through this week's assignment that there is a right way and a wrong way to peer review.
After watching the videos What is Peer Editing?, Peer Edit With Perfection Tutorial, and Writing Peer Review Top 10 Mistakes provided by my professor via YouTube I agree that these are some of the best ways to get clear, accurate, and positive results while peer editing. The best way to provide meaningful feed back to your peers about their work is to first start with compliments. Giving a compliment first is a good way to break the ice and make them feel positive about the work they have done. Second, make specific suggestions about their work. Suggest ways they can improve their writing, such as suggesting they change the spelling of a word, adjusting words or sentences around to make better sense, or even using more interesting words to make their writing more creative. The last thing to remember while peer editing is corrections. Be sure to check for any grammatical or punctuation errors as well as sentence errors. Using these three steps as a guide for peer editing will make the editing process much more clear and effective for both participants.