Saturday, February 17, 2007

Peers Helping Peers

During Tuesday's class we got together and shared our papers. We are all working on different subjects and we all have somewhat different writing styles so I found it to be pretty helpful to get some insite on my paper.

I got a lot of help with changing up a few sentences or phrases that sounded awkward to the reader. Along with that my peers made a few grammer corrections such as commas and incorrect spelling. I think it is always helpful to have a new set of eyes go over your paper. They always seem to catch the mistakes that you miss from reading the paper too many times in your own head.

I basically gave the same kind of corrections to my peers as well. Again grammer and spelling errors, along with a few mechanical things. There was some repetition in one paper, and citation errors in the others.

Overall I thought that meeting as a group and going over our papers was helpful. I got to tell them what to look for and what I needed help with, and they delivered.

1 comment:

mander said...

I think it is always helpful to have someone else look at your paper that way they can find the mistakes that you usually over read.