SQR#2 Israel Flores

Israel Flores
ENG 1320/1301. 161
Instructor: Trang Phan
Date: 9/8/10


                   Peer Response: Teaching Specific Revision Suggestions




Citation: Author(s): Gloria A. Neubert and Sally J. McNeils. “Peer Response: Teaching Specific Revision Suggestions”. The English Journal, Vol. 79, No. 5 (Sep., 1990), pp. 52-56



Summary:

Peer response or some call it feedback, is when a secondary student reads your paper and gives you key points on how to get a imagine in the readers mind. But many when they get there paper back there helpful answers, don’t give specific reasons how to change the things they have wrong. For example students feedback was like “ Your essay was bad I did not like it “. How is that going to help the writer improve on the mistakes he/she has. The student is gust going to end up the way he began when he turned the essay in. So Sarah W. Freedman found a way for teachers to put students in groups of two-five students and used a technique called PQR Praise-Question-Polish. The students took turns reading each others essays until each finished with theirs. This helped the students make suggestion on how to change there essay and made the students also thinks of other ways to change it. By each student taking turns they will get the hang of the right way to write a good essay and figure out better ways when the students on not there to tell him. That helped students give good feedback, and otherwise busted the writer on the ways to improve there essay.



Question: How is PQP technique described in the article? Why is it important to have praise, question, and polish parts?



Response:

The PQR is a technique for students to get a good feedback so they can improve on there essay and reach the reader imagination. So there essay will stand out from the rest. The way the PQR does that is by the readers giving questions on what they did not understand from the essay they gust read or give specific reasons how to make the essay better. So that another reader will get the essay better and have a better understanding on what you are trying to say. That way each time someone tell’s you what’s wrong with your essay you keep improving on your essay. By them giving you suggestions on why your essay is wrong or why they cant understand it. Then you will understand what you have wrong when you write your own and improve it without someone telling you how to.