This week in class we continued writing our group essays that compared the books we read over the summer to How to Read Like a Professor. I read Obasan and The Book Thief. My group was fairly productive this week; we got all our thoughts down for our main paragraphs and finished their structures. Near the end of the week, we were asked to peer review another group's essay while they did the same to ours. We were told when other people review our essays, they can find parts we didn't explain well enough, parts that we may have forgotten to add. We were also told not to worry about grammar, nitpicky mistakes.
In the past, I never liked peer editing and did not understand why it was needed. I felt there was nothing my classmates could add that I had not thought of. Also, when I edited other people's works, I focused only on grammar mistakes because I didn't want them to be offended. I was willing to fix what they wrote, but not tell them what they needed. However, this week I learned how much peer editing can benefit essays. My group was told that in one of our paragraphs, we didn't explain how the books connected to How to Read Like a Professor. I read the paragraph in question and realized they were right, we had completely neglected it. Then I read a different paragraph and realized we had done the same thing. That one comment helped us fix many major structural problems with our essay. At times we can be so absorbed in our writing that we forget to include major elements. For this reason, we need peer editing. As can be seen from my group's experience, the essays edited will benefit immensely. http://www.colby.edu/writers.center/peerediting.html
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Andy Schoenborn
10/1/2016 01:42:34 pm
Hi Melissa,
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