Blog Post #3

    What is Peer Editing? Peer editing can be a self-confidence builder to those writers who are insecure about their own writing. You are likely to find that others' first drafts are not so great either, and you'll find out how much you can actually benefit other writers with your own helpful opinion.  As Lucy Calkins (1983) states, part of being a good writer is being able to give valuable feedback to other writers. Peer response and editing helps students.  Adriana Zardini also defines editing as "making suggestions, compliments, and changes to writing," as shown in her slideshow "Peer Edit with Perfection Tutorial". 

   Peer editing is done so all students can improve their grammar, editing, and writing skills. Peer editing can be chancy when someone is too serious and or too defensive, as shown in the video "Writing Peer Review Top 10 Mistakes" created by Tim Bedley. It brought up a lot of interesting points and was pretty funny considering the age of the children. The point of the video was that all the students must keep constructive and positive attitudes during peer editing reviews in order to learn from another person’s peer editing. The overall goal of peer editing is to help students work more efficiently. We always need to remember to leave compliments, suggestions, and suggest corrections that are not to critical, but helpful.