The assigned materials taught me that to give a proper peer review you should always start with complimenting what the writer did correctly or very well. Giving compliments let the writer know that you did enjoy their paper. So when you do start giving suggestions and corrections they know you are just being helpful. The next step to a proper peer review is giving suggestions. Some examples of suggestions given in the slide show were offering a different word choice, using details, or helping organize the paper. The third and final step to a peer review is the corrections. Corrections can be given to correct spelling mistakes, grammar mistakes, missing punctuation, or to correct incomplete or run-on sentences.
When giving corrections you do not want to be like the character Picky Patty, meaning you do not want to point out small insignificant errors such as the thickness of an underlined word or the space between the words in the title. This would come off to the writer as rude and cause them to experience a bad peer review. Peer reviewing is a tough job, it is important to have the balance of giving corrections but doing so in a way that will not hurt the feeling of the person whose work you are reviewing.
When leaving a peer review for my group members if the review would embarrass my group member I e-mailed it to them, but with just minor mistakes or sentence structure I will leave the comments on their blog. Constructive criticism should be kept positive and not said in an ugly way, and I would hope my classmates would be okay with me trying to help improve their blog post.
Jacquelyne, I also thought about using the children's peer review video as a tool in my classroom. I like the way you put it when you said "Peer reviewing is a tough job, it is important to have the balance of giving corrections but doing so in a way that will not hurt the feeling of the person whose work you are reviewing." It is definitely a tough thing to do, but I feel a lot better knowing how to correctly do so. The first picture you have would be a great poster for the classroom in the writing area or near the writing center. I also agree about if it is embarrassing corrections I will email my group members, but if it is just minor corrections I would not mind posting a comment directly on their blog.
ReplyDeleteKeri Brown
"In this video they show characters Defensive Dave and Mean Margaret; Defensive Dave takes his peer review to personally and has his feelings hurt where as Mean Margaret is too harsh in her peer review and does not review her peers appropriately." This may sound better broken into two or three sentences. Something like this: In this video they show character such a Defensive Dave and Mean Margaret. Defensive Dave takes his peer review to personally and has his feelings hurt. Mean Margaret is too harsh in her peer review and does not review her peers appropriately.
ReplyDelete"Giving compliments let the writer know that you did enjoy their paper." lets the writer know...
"like the character picky patty, meaning" Capitalize Picky Patty
Overall great post this week! Be sure to proofread your blog posts to avoid minor errors.
Also you need to include links on every blog post from this point forward.