Thursday, November 5, 2009

Journal #9 Is peer group editing useful?

Yes, I agree that peer group editing is useful because you could get your peer's input on your paper. Your peers can give you advise. It may be on how to make your essay more convincing, how to make it flow throughout the whole thing or on your sentence structure. Your peers can correct your paper's flaws. It may be punctautions, words spelt wrong or grammar. Peer group editing is important because you need other people's point of view. Your essay might make sense to you, but the important thing is for the readers to make sense out of your essay. You have to make it so that the readers can fully understand the point you are making in your essay. Peer editing can make that part easy. You might get uncomfortable showing your essay to your peers, but its good to know what they think about it. Peer editing is not only for your peers to give you advise, but also for you to make the effort of looking through their papers as well. I admit that it's awkward showing my essay to my peers. However, it makes me feel good about myself when they correct me or compliment me for writing the essay well. It's all about learning and growing from it. You can never really learn unless you are corrected. It's good to see your mistakes. That way you can correct it and hand in a better essay to the teacher.

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