Peer Editing- Danielle Drumheller

Before Monday's class, I had never really had any peer editing experiences. Peer editing was never a part of the learning process at my school. I didn't even realize that it was at other people's schools until Monday. But I wish that my teachers in high school would have used peer editing as a tool to teach us what to look for when revising a paper because it really helped getting feedback from someone who wasn't as intimidating as a teacher. I felt that peer editing also helped me see the project with a different set of eyes, so instead of only seeing how my topic fit the guidelines of the project, I could see how someone else used the guidelines and how it worked out for their paper.

I felt that the process I used when peer editing was similar to the process in the book. For example, I read the paper more than once in order to feel comfortable editing and revising it and also I found that it was very helpful for me to take notes while editing. However, I think that the relaxed environment that we had in class on Monday was better than a more strict environment, like the one mentioned in the book, would have been. Also, I think that one-on-one peer editing was more helpful than group editing would have been. I think that one-on-one peer editing is better than group editing because, even though I have never been a part of group editing, I thought one-on-one peer editing was less stressful and less intimidating.