How Can You Provide Meaningful Feedback to Your Peers?
By:Chelsea Powers
Three main components:
-Compliment the writer
-Make suggestions
-Provide corrections
Peer editing can be a very touchy subject. After all you are critiquing someone else's work and nobody likes to be wrong (right)? First, you do not want to offend the writer, so start off by complimenting the writers work. Next, with a positive attitude make suggestions on how they could change their work to make it better. Don't be a "Picky Patty". You have to be careful in how you do this because you do not want to offend the writer.
I use peer editing everyday at my job. Our company just turned into an ISO certified company. Through this difficult time my fellow co-workers were constantly revising and changing documentation to be compliant with ISO. Even though at sometime it was very hard to stay positive about changes with them, we evaluated the corrections as a team to make the right decision. In closing what I am trying to say about this is that peer editing is not just in the classroom it follows you through certain career paths that you choose in life.
Chelsea, your post was short and sweet. You got the point across with no fluff to bore the reader. I was intrigued by your statement about peer editing as being, "not just in the classroom it follows you through certain career paths that you choose in life." Although I have never really looked at it like that you are completely right. I will definitely remember that for the future.
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JS
Great post! Nice use of personal experience to tie it all together.
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