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Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Peer Editing
In my past experiences of peer editing, I had never really gotten any good feed back. Usually my teachers would put us into groups, they would read my paper, and just say it was good. This didn't give me any way to improve my papers. I would leave it to the teacher to edit it while she was grading it, which only led me to a bad grade. I think peer editing is very important because other people can see what you don't. I usually don't find my mistakes because I made them. The peer editing that I got in this class was a lot more helpful than all the past peer editing I have done. My partner gave me good suggestions that would really improve my paper. I also was pointed out to some mistakes that I would have not seen on my own. I think peer editing can be good or bad depending on who is doing the editing. I want to continue to do peer editing in this class because my first experience was very good.
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That's an on the dot summary of mine and I'm sure a lot of other people's peer editing experiences. Well said
ReplyDeleteI actually had a completely different experience! It always allowed me to see errors i would over read. But I can see how students would waste the time instead of working.
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