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Gloria A Neubert and Sally J.McNelis Peer Response: Teaching specific Revision Suggestions the English Journal vol 79 No 5 (sep 1990) pp 52-56


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Summary

This article is about how students can check each other’s work. It suggests different types of way some of which involves group checking. While many teachers have had problems trying to get the students to learn from their own mistakes they decided that maybe they could learn from their pears mistakes. They would all sit down and talk about how each other’s papers had or what they lacked on. But the only way this will work if each student participates in the group discussion. Some students may take this as a good advice and others will take it personal but this is for their own good. When leaving comments on each other’s papers they must leave a full detailed comment so the writer can comprehend what the commentator is saying. It must say what he had well and what he needed work on, and things that he could add to make it sound better. Also they can have a group of people read the same paper and discuss aloud what each of them has understood form that paper. It also talks about how to revise the work write it review it and then to re-write the whole thing.

Question: in general, which parts do you like about this writing?

You see I like the fact that we get to learn from all this I feel that this is a great way to learn but I am the type of person that am real hesitant on letting people read what I write. But I now know that this will just make me a better writer. I think that all this are good steps into making me a better writer. Being in a group is probably the thing that makes this whole process work because this gives off several opinions on that one paper and some comments will be good and other won’t be. I also think that checking the others papers will help me relies myself the mistakes I do in my writing; so the next time I write a paper I won’t make the same mistake the writer did. I would also like to add that all this will help on grammar errors. And this is an area I need a lot of help in.