Student outcome #4: (peer review) This learning outcome is focused on the ability to critically read a peer’s essay and make constructive suggestions for change, in addition to the ability to evaluate one’s own work and identify opportunities for specific improvement. (Word count 301).
This year peer edit has been anything but a topic that is taken lightly. Personally, I love getting feedback on my essay and seeing how the changes suggested for me helps make the work better. I also don’t mind giving feedback but I didn’t always know how to do it without just making small pointless comments or on the opposite end being too harsh. In English this semester peer review was not something taken lightly. With the help of our guided worksheets I think I was able to give (and receive) successful feedback on essays.
A comment I left from our first peer review and my end comment from our last peer review.
In the first picture, the comment I left sounds hesitant and it doesn’t really make sense. I was nervous to make suggestions and you can see the growth in the second picture since I would say I sound a little more confident in my last end comment.
I think that a lot of people in the classes’ abilities to peer edit have gotten better and I have found the comments that are left on my essay to be really helpful. I used to be a little more hesitant to follow people’s criticism but now I’m more open to making these changes.
The comment that was left and the change that was made.
The last sentence of the second picture is what I added after receiving the two comments above. I know that adding a sentence is only a small change but it still proves my point of making the changes suggested for me rather than just reading them and doing nothing about it.
In the future I will continue to work on my abilities of properly editing my peers’ writing along with correctly taking the feedback that I am given.
