I think that peer editing is definitely a positive activity for the class to partake in. It is beneficial to not only the writer, but the reader as well. Seeing someone else’s perspective can always help you formulate new ideas and touch up your paper. Of course, it is also always very difficult for the writer to catch his or her own grammatical mistakes, or any mistakes for that matter in his or her paper. However, when you are reading someone else’s paper, the mistakes can be glaring in comparison to your own, and they are easier to spot.
I think that other than a proof read and maybe bouncing a couple of ideas off of someone, there isn’t really much more of a need for peer editing. Any other editing work that is needed on a paper I feel can be done, and most likely will need to be done, on your own. Having someone look at your paper is most definitely a plus, but I would never be one to say that it is essential. So it being a part of the editing process as the book says is bogus in my opinion. Really any formula for an editing process is invalid because everyone has their own formula for how they edit, as we discovered in the drawing activity the first week of school.
To tie things up, I personally believe the peer editing process to be useful in my own editing process. I also feel that for the majority of students, peer editing is advantageous in comparison to a system that eradicates that step.
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