Thursday, September 5, 2013

Blog Post 3

How Can You Provide Meaningful Feedback to Your Peers?


After reading Paige Ellis' Blog Assignment #12, and watching What is Peer Editing, Peer Edit with Perfection Tutorial, and Writing Peer Review Top 10 Mistakes, I can honestly say that I can now edit peer work with ease. When reviewing someone else's work, the three things to address are compliments, suggestions, and corrections. By remembering these rules when editing, I can be a more effective editor through constructive criticism.

Complementing on someones work is not only a common courtesy, but it shows him or her that there are not only some things they have to work on, but that there are a lot of positives in their work. Most complements and corrections may be made through suggestions. I can suggest that I like (or dislike) their word choice, or details. I also ask myself if their work sticks to the main idea, if they have run-on sentences, or if their organization (flow) needs some work.

When editing someone it is important to remember that this is constructive criticism, and that our goal is to better each other! We can better each other by correcting punctuation, grammar, or spelling when it is noticed. To be a good peer editor, do not be picky, harsh, or general. It is also important to receive criticism well in return. When someone is offering constructive criticism, do not ignore it, and try not to be offended because we are all in this together!

My C4C assignment was to comment on, and edit Amanda Weller's most recent blog post on Flipping the Classroom. My positive feedback went as follows:
"Hey! I really liked your post on Flipping the Classroom. I agree that this style of teaching will "allow more creativity and students to get a more hands on experience with technology." I also liked the picture illustrating how the classroom instruction will be inverted from "lecture today" to "activity today." My only discretion would be that after reading it, I wanted to know more about how Flipping the Classroom actually works, but it is awesome that your blog makes me want to do so! Also, I think the apostrophe "s" in "teacher's" is out of place, but other than that, great post!"

4 comments:

  1. Hi Daniel, It's me again, Tracy. I would like to start by saying that I am so glad that you were the one that I was assigned to for my c4c project. After reading your error-free post, a weight was lifted off of my shoulders. Your writing is eloquent, straight to the point and easy to understand. There is absolutely nothing about your writing that i would change. I hope that I wrote as well as you did. Keep up the good work.

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  2. Tracy is not correct. There were at least two I found: "Complementing on someones work is not only a common courtesy, " Complimenting on? Remove the on. And use someone's, not someones.

    Interesting. Nice touch in adding your comment!


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  3. Hi, I really enjoyed reading your post. I agree with you about the three key points to peer editing. I love how you gave an example in your blog post about your idea of how you should comment on a post. My only thing that I disagree with is the exclamation point needed after the word "other" in the third paragraph. While I was reading it, it didn't stand out to me. I like your idea that you stated here.

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  4. Hi, I really enjoyed reading your post. I agree with you about the three key points to peer editing. I love how you gave an example in your blog post about your idea of how you should comment on a post. My only thing that I disagree with is the exclamation point needed after the word "other" in the third paragraph. While I was reading it, it didn't stand out to me. I like your idea that you stated here.

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