I am a timid person when it comes to telling someone the honest truth. Especially, if it could possibly hurt their feelings. Peer editing has always been a hard task for me. I have never learned the proper information to help another student with an assignment. I always have a partner that is like a "Defensive Dave" or a "Whatever William". These two types of students can be the most difficult to please, and it makes the job that much harder. The three stages of giving an informative, helpful, but also polite feedback, are going to help me to honestly critique my classmates blogs.
The first stage of the comment should be a compliment. A compliment could be, " I love your topic sentence", " I love your choice of words in your second paragraph.", or it could even be ," You have great information in your paper". Any type of compliment is great to start with. It shows that we are not trying to be rude or unhelpful. The second stage is to suggestion something helpful to their information. Anything that another classmate suggests for me to do for my blog, I would do. I want the best grade that I can get in the class, and I know my other classmates feel the same way about their grade. The last stage is correction. This is where "Defensive Dave" could come into affect. Everyone will take being corrected differently, Some students, such as myself, take it in pride, and thank their classmate for the help. Others, take having a couple spelling errors as an insult, but it is the group members job to help each other make the best grade possible. The two videos and short slide show taught me how to help my classmates in the correct form.
"I am a timid person when it comes to telling someone the honest truth. Especially, if it could possibly hurt their feelings." And you desire to be an educator? You are not alone. I find it hard to understand, however. Maybe if you wanted to be a baby sitter I could understand. But not to be an educator!
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"The three stages of giving an informative, helpful, but also polite feedback, are going to help me to honestly critique my classmates blogs." I hope so!
"...something helpful to their information." Helpful to information? How does that work?
"Anything that another classmate suggests for me to do for my blog, I would do.' Not always a good idea!
"... take it in pride..." I think you mean stride, not pride.
"Others, take having a couple spelling errors as an insult,..." The authors who made the mistakes or the readers who had to endure the mistakes?
Hey Samantha!! I enjoyed reading your post. I think you did a great job in sharing your honest thoughts on this topic!! Peer editing can be a very tough thing to do. Having a positive attitude and showing you care about the work you are editing can make it a lot easier. There are always going to be "Defensive Daves" and "Whatever Williams", but if your peer sees you really care about their work then your editing can be extremely effective. One thing I would be weary of though is to automatically accept any suggestions from peer editors. No one is perfect and just because a suggestion is made doesn't make it correct. I think one should look over all suggestions made and then decide if they are truly going to make the work better. If the suggestion does make the work better then I would implement the changes, if not then I wouldn't.
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