Blog Post #3

Peer Editing

After watching this videos, I learned a lot about peer editing. Peer editing is when someone, who is the same age as you, tries to help the writer improve his paper by staying positive, being specific, and complete all three steps of peer editing. According to the videos and slide show, the three steps to peer editing are compliments, suggestions, and corrections. My favorite video was Writing Peer Review Top 10 Mistakes because of the little kids and their funny acting skills. In all honesty, these students are right because every person is different when they peer review. The video What is Peer Editing? and the slideshow Peer Edit With Perfection Tutorial were both really similar and stated the same facts. They both stated that in peer editing one should always remember to stay positive, be specific, and complete all three steep of peer editing. One thing I liked about the slideshow was that it gave examples of a paper that need some peer editing.

I think I have done a good job, so far, in my comments that I have left for the members in my group. There is always room for improvement but I stay positive and tell them what I really thought was interesting about their posts. I believe that my weakness in peer editing is being specific. Whenever I am peer editing I always try to be specific, but sometimes I get mixed up with my words and don't know how to word them correctly. Obviously I will have more chances to improve my peer editing skills, so I hope to do better in the future.