Peer Editing

In this CoLT, student pairs critically review and provide editorial feedback on each other’s essays, reports, arguments, research papers, or other writing assignments. Peer editing helps teach students how to identify the features of good or poor writing in the work of others, thus developing critical evaluation skills that they can apply to their own writing. It also provides student authors with constructive criticism so that they can improve their papers before submitting them for a grade.

1. Students work in pairs, taking turns describing ideas for the paper that each individually intends to write. As each student describes his or her ideas, a partner takes notes, asks questions, and makes suggestions.
2. Each student conducts research for the individual paper, keeping an eye open for material that might prove useful to the partner.
3. Students write their papers individually.
4. Within each pair, students exchange paper drafts for peer editing. Student editors make proofing marks and comments directly on paper and score or rate the paper with a Peer Review Form. Student editors also complete and sign the Peer Review Form, indicating their ratings of each of these elements.
5. Each author revises his or her paper, taking the peer editing into consideration.
6. Authors attach the Peer Review Form to the final draft and submit it to the professor for evaluation.

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=SG&hl=en-GB&v=VCio7AbO3vo
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24apK7i32xg

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