The slideshow Peer Edit with Perfection Tutorial provided some great examples of different suggestions you can make to helping improve your peer's work without being offensive in any way. One of the examples is if their work didn't make sense you can say, "If you add more details after this sentence, it would be more clear." Another way is using different words that can make their work sound even better, such as using the word "exceptional" over the word "good". In the video Writing Peer Review Top Ten Mistakes discusses different types of critiques you should avoid critiquing as you peer edit. One of them is Picky Patty. When you pick at every little thing in a kind of rude way. Another one is Whatever William where the writer doesn't seem to really care what you have to say about their work. Of course there are many more but I found this video to be very useful and delightful. All three of these videos helps shed some light of what I should or shouldn't do when trying to help out my fellow peer on their work.
Sunday, February 2, 2014
Blog Post 3
What is peer editing? In this video three steps are being discussed. There is one important rule in peer editing, which is remembering to stay positive. Staying positive is important because nobody wants a negative Nancy telling them how to improve their work. Plus you want to avoid offending somebody. Staying positive brings us to the first step which is compliments. You want to say something nice about your peer work that you like or find interesting. Then you make suggestions as the second step. You can tell the writer specifically ways that can make their writing better. Instead of just telling somebody their work needs improvements, making suggestions can be very helpful. The last step is the corrections. Needless to say adding the corrections to their spelling, punctuation, sentences, and grammar is the point of editing somebody else's work.
The slideshow Peer Edit with Perfection Tutorial provided some great examples of different suggestions you can make to helping improve your peer's work without being offensive in any way. One of the examples is if their work didn't make sense you can say, "If you add more details after this sentence, it would be more clear." Another way is using different words that can make their work sound even better, such as using the word "exceptional" over the word "good". In the video Writing Peer Review Top Ten Mistakes discusses different types of critiques you should avoid critiquing as you peer edit. One of them is Picky Patty. When you pick at every little thing in a kind of rude way. Another one is Whatever William where the writer doesn't seem to really care what you have to say about their work. Of course there are many more but I found this video to be very useful and delightful. All three of these videos helps shed some light of what I should or shouldn't do when trying to help out my fellow peer on their work.
The slideshow Peer Edit with Perfection Tutorial provided some great examples of different suggestions you can make to helping improve your peer's work without being offensive in any way. One of the examples is if their work didn't make sense you can say, "If you add more details after this sentence, it would be more clear." Another way is using different words that can make their work sound even better, such as using the word "exceptional" over the word "good". In the video Writing Peer Review Top Ten Mistakes discusses different types of critiques you should avoid critiquing as you peer edit. One of them is Picky Patty. When you pick at every little thing in a kind of rude way. Another one is Whatever William where the writer doesn't seem to really care what you have to say about their work. Of course there are many more but I found this video to be very useful and delightful. All three of these videos helps shed some light of what I should or shouldn't do when trying to help out my fellow peer on their work.
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Great job on your post. I loved the video Top Ten Mistakes, it really puts in perspective about what kind of editor you want to be. I defiantly do not want to be a Picky Patty or Whatever William. Next time don't forget your required picture. Good luck in EDM310.
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