Peer Editing-Patrick Toohers

In the past I did not do too much peer editing in my classes. Normally the teacher would just review the paper once, and then give it back for me to write the final copy. I wish I had been exposed to peer editing more throughout my life because it just gives the paper another angle to be looked at. In most cases different people will see different mistakes in a paper, therefore peer editing is great for getting the paper another look and finding more areas to improve upon. I think that for this first paper that we wrote the peer editing went very well. It is nice to have someone else look at your paper and recognize the mistakes that you just do not realize are there.

The way that I went about reviewing my partner's paper was by loosely following the guideline sheet for editing an essay. I read through the paper twice in search of and grammatical errors, structure problems, or detail that needed to be added. I'm pretty sure that I covered a little bit of all of those things while editing and hopefully it was of some help to my partner. I know that my partner helped point out some flaws in my essay that I could work on to make my paper more complete. Overall, I really like the idea of peer editing and not just having the teacher be the only one to edit your paper before it is handed in; I look forward to getting more into peer editing in the future.