Blog Assignment #3

When it comes to a Critique!

When it comes to critiquing a pier or even a teacher, there are many ways to go about it. But which way is the best? I truly believe it is a personal thing, not only depending on who the author you are critiquing is but how your personality reflects on your critique. First what is peer editing? The first video recourse you could watch on this subject is What is Peer Editing? click here The definition of peer is someone your own age. The definition of editing is make suggestion, comments, compliments and changes to writing. This video suggested three rules to peer editing: compliments, making suggestions and corrections. Being positive, being specific, and completing all three steps to peer editing rules will help you make a respectful and intellectual critique. Viewing the slideshow Peer Edit with Perfection Tutorial click here really puts the rules and procedures in detail with examples. This slideshow shows how making compliments and being respectful is one of the most important things to peer editing and a well put together critique. No one will want to take advice from someone who is rude and critical to their work. Then there is the video Writing Peer Review Top 10 Mistakes.click here This video shows even kids can pick up on poor critiquing. Whether it be Picky Patty, who doesn’t let anything slide, down to the centimeters. Or Social Sammy, who doesn’t care at all about the critique and only wants to talk.

What were the positives?

Always start your peer editing by mentioning the paper’s particular strengths. Tell the writer what you think he or she did well:

• Your strengths as a writer are ________
• These examples are excellent because…
• Your strongest section is ________
• This was really intriguing because…
• I liked the way you________

Is there clarity? Grammatical or spelling errors?

Making suggestions means giving the author some specific ideas about how to improve their writing. Remember to stay positive and be specific in your comments. Hurt feelings rarely have a positive effect on a person’s desire to change the way they do things they are more likely to react negatively and aggressively to suggestions. The third step in the peer editing process is making corrections. Corrections mean checking your peer’s paper for: • Spelling mistakes • Grammar mistakes • Missing punctuation • Incomplete or run-on sentences

Will you offer suggestions publicly (blog) or privately (e-mail, etc.)?

When it comes to actually making or offering suggestions, I feel that it really depends on the suggestion you are making. The pros of open or public review is that not only can the author see what you suggested but other readers have the chance of learning or catching on to something new. But there is also a con to publicly critiquing someone’s writing. Authors can take your suggestions wrong, especially if their writing is personal or they just took your words a different ways. People do not know you personally, they don’t know when your joking or being sarcastic. This is even more so true when they cannot see your face or read your body signals. The main disadvantage of open review is the likely accumulation of 'enemies' who may later try to torpedo the person trying to make suggestion. I feel that I will use public suggestions or critique more so though, they will just have to be used in the rite form. I feel that the chance of not only the person you are trying to critique can learn from you, but also the peers around you.