When I peer evaluate I am very conscious about grammar, MLA formatting, and flow. When I was a student in middle school and high school this was very important to the teachers there and I feel that these areas are my strong parts when giving advice for others. In the Essay below I commented on Alli Hureau’s paper on Social Movements. Throughout her rough draft Alli mostly had local errors to fix. These issues were just common issues that come with writing and revising. For comment number 1 I chose Local because it was just a simple word structure error. For comment number 2 I chose Local because there was an issue in the MLA citation. Comment 3 shows a Local error due to the fact that a word can be deleted for better flow. Comment 4 and 5 are also Local comments. Comment 4 is an unneeded apostrophe so that is a local error. Comment 5 was just a misused word. Yes all of my comments were local comments, but there was not much more than that her evidence was there and her ideas and organization with the evidence was great. The link for her Rough Draft will be below.
Alli Hureau Social Movement: https://docs.google.com/a/une.edu/document/d/1tqB7BylNnpPdcmrXDOkS8–hBEy3qQM5cokFV6HQeEk/edit?usp=sharing
Peer editing is a great tool to use and it helps others find mistakes that they may have skipped over. It is always helpful to get more than one peer evaluator as well. Another classmate, Aaron Ramos, also commented on Alli’s paper. I did not comment the same things as Aaron even though I picked up on him because he had already commented the errors. It also helps to read the paper out loud and also have someone read it out loud to you so you can write down edits you can make to your draft. The comments for revision from me and the comments for revision by Aaron Ramos had Alli create a great final paper.
For the future I plan to make comments even if someone has made them before to show that I also noticed the room for improvement or there was an error to fix. Learning how classmates critique others in the class also helped me for the future because it made me start to notice other errors to fix that I may have missed before. I have learned to look for more global errors rather than just look at the structure and flow as I normally would. Paragraph placement can change the whole way the essay flows and is read. In the future I plan to look for more than just MLA, grammar, and flow of the paragraph.
