Blog Post #3

I have learned a lot about peer reviewing by viewing What is Peer Reviewing Editing and Writing Peer Review Top 10 Mistakes, videos and ,Peer Edit With Perfection Tutorial slideshow. Growing up in school, I was not taught to stay positive when peer reviewing. I was taught to be straightforward with the student's work and to not hold nothing back. Now, I realize that sometimes that is not the right way when peer reviewing because most importantly he or she is a human and humans have feelings. So, that is why when we make suggestions to students, we should say it in a positive way.

I know as a Southerner, we tend to make words when we speak and will apply those words to our writing. For instance," Everyone's having a great time." We know that there is not a contraction for everyone is but we have established this error in our everyday speaking. So before criticizing someone's work, we must first try relate to why the person might have made these mistakes in the first place. I love the concept of starting off a peer review with compliments because it will definitely make the peer feel as if you really care about his or her writing.