Peer editing is a process that has been taught since the very beginning. Memories of peer editing short picture book stories of my fellow second graders all the way back in elementary school. Even though we were just taught the very basics, it was a great place to start. As I got older and moved on to more advanced classes, editing became more sophisticated and had to be taken in more of a serious matter given writing became a more important aspect in our academic lives. Editing has become second nature and is done without even noticing sometimes. If you think about it, we are constantly editing. Whenever anything is written, it is almost always re-read or at least scanned over to check for any obvious errors or mistakes.
The peer editing process that we demonstrated yesterday in class was very relaxed in the sense that we were merely just attempting to help each other improve our writing and edit unnoticed mistakes. It was clear that we were obviously not trying to offend or be disrespectful towards the writing, just make come up with creative suggestions to improve the essay.
As talked about in the chapter 10, the editing process is very clear and easy to understand and go by. The process steps seemed to actually follow the editing process that I have been using for my many years throughout grade school. The only aspect that I probably would do different is have the editor read the essay to themselves rather than the writer read it aloud because it would definitely be easier for the editor to come across mistakes and punctuation errors that they notice.
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