I learned how to complete a peer review by watching the following
What is Peer Editing?,
Peer Edit With Perfection Tutorial, and
Writing Peer Review Top 10 Mistakes. I knew that when writing a peer review you had to be tactful, but I never knew there was a three step process. The first step is compliment. You have to compliment the peer that you are reviewing. You can compliment on anything that you liked about their work, but you have to stay positive. The second step is suggestions. You need to give your peer ideas on how to improve their work. This can be on word choice, sentence structure, or content. Lastly, you have to make corrections. Corrections can be on punctuation and/or spelling.
I know reviewing your peers can be awkward and challenging, but we have to remember that we all make mistakes. If we know what we can improve on, then we will keep improving every chance we can. We can make each day a learning experience. All we have to do is follow the three step process to writing a constructive peer review and stay positive.
Jennifer,
ReplyDeleteJust like you, I never really knew that you could apply the three simple steps as we saw in the videos and presentations to peer editing. I think the steps are very useful when peer editing, especially being positive and making suggestions. Peer editing can be awkward and challenging but it's an important tool to be successful. We definitely all make mistakes and the first step to improvement is realizing where lies the problem. I really enjoyed your post!