One of the best ways a student will learn is from peer editing. Peer editing is having someone your own age or for say your classmate look over your paper and make corrections. A great video on explaining peer editing is What is Peer Editing?. Most students will listen to their peers. Having a peer edit or in other words make suggestions, or changes to your paper will allow the student to see their work through someone else's point of view. When you peer edit someone's paper there are three steps you should follow compliments, suggestions, and corrections. Peer Edit with Perfection Tutorial
The first step to peer editing is compliment. Always be positive, you don't want someone criticizing all your hard work either. State out what you like about the paper and what really caught your eye while reading it. The second step is to offer suggestions. Let the writer know what he or she could have done different in order to make the statement more interesting. Offer what you would have done if you were writing the paper. Last step in peer editing is to make corrections. Mark where the writer misspelled a word, forgot to capitalize, and anything else you find grammatically incorrect. This doesn't mean the writer doesn't know grammar, when writing it is possible to miss something and this is why you should have someone peer edit all of your work. Writing Peer Edit Review Top 10 Mistakes
I think peer editing is a great way for students to interact with each other and talk about learning. A student may not remember what the teacher had said, but they are more inclined to remember one of their friends correcting them. The sources I are located at the top of the page.
Thoughtful. Interesting.
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