Peer Editing and Self-Editing -- You will need this info for future assignments!

 

Please start by watching this video published by Harvard Business Review, "Why You Should Read your Memo Out Loud." Links to an external site.

Self-Editing

It is important to note that 50% of your writing time is actually in the revising stage of writing.  For our class, most of your future assignments will require you to submit a rough draft, edit a rough draft of a classmate, and then submit a final draft.  You will be evaluated on the effort and the contributions that you make at all three of these stages.  Before submitting your rough draft, evaluate your document based on the following two worksheets:

Self-editing Exercise Links to an external site.

Peer Edit Evaluation Links to an external site. (this is the same worksheet that you will submit when you evaluate your classmate's work)

Peer Editing

The following assignments (Request Letter, Response Letter, Negative Message, and Persuasive Message) will require that you submit a rough draft of your document on the appropriate discussion board forum.  After you post your rough draft to the discussion board, note who posted right before you.  You will edit the paper of the person who posted right before you on the discussion board.  There will be an incentive to be the first person to post... the first person to post a rough draft on the discussion board will not have to provide a peer edit.  The first "poster" on the rough draft discussion board will receive 10 points for peer editing without having to provide an edit.  

We still will have a few of you that will get stuck without a timely peer edit.  If you don't receive a peer edit by the due date, you can email me(kari.meehan@edcc.edu)  your document. **This is only offered to students who have submitted their rough draft on time.

 When submitting your peer edit, you will need to submit two documents as assignments.  In addition to submitting the peer edited documents, you will need to Canvas message the edits and comments to the person that you peer edited.   

1)  Submit a saved copy of the person's draft with inserted Word Comments (please see Tech Tips).   Download Here is an example

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2)  Submit a copy of the Peer Edit Evaluation - saved using your name and the name of the person who wrote it.  Here is an example. Links to an external site.

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“No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.”
– H.G. Wells Links to an external site. (1866-1946)

“Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.”
– T. S. Eliot Links to an external site. (1888-1965)

“I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.”
– Carl Sandburg Links to an external site. (1878-1967)

“You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country.”
– Robert Frost Links to an external site. (1874-1963)

“He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.”
– Abraham Lincoln Links to an external site. (1809-1865)

“I never write 'metropolis' for seven cents when I can write 'city' and get paid the same.”
– Mark Twain Links to an external site. (1835-1910)

“The biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has been accomplished.”
– George Bernard Shaw Links to an external site. (1856-1950)