Peer Editing

With the start of peer editing, I thought we were going to end up doing more of the same kind of editing that I did in high school. I was wrong; we were supposed to be doing a fresh style of editing where we would comment only on content and not focus on things that can easily be changed at the end. I will say that we did focus more on content than I had in the past, but I don’t know if I set my expectations too high or what exactly my problem was but everything did not play out as I thought it would. I guess I had assumed that I would be able to make some profound comments about my peers essays and vice versa, but it just is not so. Please do not misunderstand me, everybody had very helpful things to say and tips to give, but it was just not as mind blowing as I had anticipated. Anyways, that being said, I do like the fact that we are not even really allowed to comment or correct grammatical issues. This definitely helps the writer focus on what he/she really needs to change content wise. Also, from the editing point of view, it makes it a challenge to find good points to make about the paper without the easy out of circling all of the issues and fixing the misspelled words. I am not sure how much I have learned at this point, but I feel that as the year goes on, editing will become more and more helpful from both perspectives.