In Paige Ellis' Blog Assignment #12, she uses personal experience to discuss how to peer review correctly. She was wanting to help her peer review's paper by pointing out different mistakes but did not want to insult the person so she decided to private message the person and give them specific feedback without letting everyone else seeing this feedback kept from embarrassing the person who's paper was being peer reviewed. She also commented on the person's blog and made general suggestions and gave some advice to show others that it is okay to give advice and help but just make sure that it is positive and will not embarrass the person.
The video What is Peer Editing? and the slideshow Peer Edit with Perfection Tutorial discuss the three steps of peer editing. The first step is to start by telling the person what you like about their paper. The second step is to give suggestions. The suggestions should be specific and should include organizational skills, use of details, and help with their topic. The third step is to offer corrections. The corrections consist of spelling and grammatical errors, sentence structure, and punctuation. When peer editing always remember to stay positive and when giving suggestions and corrections be sure to deliver this information in a kind way. The video Writing Peer Review Top 10 Mistakes discusses the wrong ways to do peer reviews. The mistakes talked about in this video about peer editing were being too picky about spacing, punctuation,etc., not listening to revisions being given, and not being specific about suggestions. Some other mistakes were giving suggestions in a mean way and taking the peer review personally.
After reading and watching this material, I figured out how to provide meaningful feedback to my peers by following the three steps of peer editing which are compliments, suggestions, and corrections. When peer reviewing somebody's paper you need to be specific with suggestions, stay on task and edit your peer's paper to the best of your ability, stay positive and do not embarrass the person that you are peer reviewing for.
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ReplyDeleteThoughtful. Interesting. Well done.