Peer Editing

1. In my case, no, the peer editing was not very helpful. Actually, I take that back. It was helpful to me, but in a different way than was intended. For the purposes of class, no, because I had four other people look at my paper. Three of them made absolutely no comments or changes at all. One made two changes, one that was grammatically correct to begin with. The way it did help me was that I had been trying to decide between a nursing major and an elementary ed major. By correcting others' papers, I decided I really enjoyed doing that. Of course I am not going to base my decision entirely on that, but it was helpful.

2. The one error my group found was a typo. I put "luck" instead of "lucky."

3. Only in the sense that I should have proofread my paper before I came to class, but I was in a hurry.

4. Sometimes I think my writing has too much of a specific "style." I need to branch out more.

5. Yes, it helped me to give better feedback and to look for more specific things such as paragraph structure.

6. Groups. My one-partner switch didn't write a single thing.

7. I like this kind of set up. I think overall it works well. It also helps that we had time to discuss why we made the changes we did.