Peer Editing Session

Instructions for Peer Editing Session:

1) Use the following Peer Edit Sheet (Rubistar rubric), copy and paste it into a Word document, and save it to your desktop, and highlight the fields with the points you want to give on it in color. Assign an overall grade to the student, judging by what you think is most important in a Research Essay from all the components of the rubric. NOTE: You can also type into my rubric, once you've pasted it into Word. That means, you can include your own personal comments (in a different color, please!).

2) Email this sheet to the author of the essay AND to me as cc., so you can get your points. You need to finish peer-editing ONE paper in class on Nov. 17th (because many people cannot open docx files from home).

3) We are doing "online editing," which means that you are going to employ the "comment function" on the top of your menu list to insert your comments.

Highlight the word that's wrong / the place where a word or punctuation sign is missing, click on "comment," and type in your suggestions. Save your document!!! If you don't save it, you will lose all your entries. When you're done, email it back to the author and me, TOGETHER with the Peer Edit Sheet (rubric). Correct all spelling, grammar, punctuation, format, and content mistakes you can find!



If you want to edit more than one papers, because you need to make up for missed days, ask in class who wants/needs a second peer-edit, and have this student email his/her paper to you. If there's no volunteer, I'll assign you one. When you email the Peer Edit Sheet back to that student, and in copy to me, indicate for which missed day you are making up, so I can put an "excused" on my attendance sheet accordingly! I'll put the volunteers for extra credit on this blog, so tell me who is doing an extra credit peer editing for whom.

CHECK MY GRADE BOOK IN CLASS IF YOU ARE INSECURE ABOUT POSSIBLE MISSED DAYS!!! Maybe you forgot to sign the attendance list on some day.

You will exchange your finished research essays with the following partner (I will distribute the essays you emailed to me to peers who missed that class, or peers whose partner didn't show up):

Group 1: Ken Stoner + Laura Treat

Group 2: Alexandra Rude + Jennifer Gulley (Marissa does one X for Jen)

Group 3: Jacob Talbert + Sarah Klingler (Marisa does one X for Jacob, and for Sarah)

Group 4: Donald Dinkins + Raquel Maxey (Sharita does 1 X for Raquel)

Group 5: Emily Muren + Ashley Epps (Sharita does 1 X for Emily)

Group 6: Sharon Espina + Leah West (Sharita does 1 X for Leah, and 1 X for Sharon)

Group 7: Heather Mormino + Sharita Haralson (Ashley does X for Sharita), Marissa does one X for Heather, Laura Treat does one X for Heather

Group 8: Melisa Ogle + Brian Harris (Sharita does one X for Melisa, and one X for Brian)

Group 9: Marissa Freese + Maddison Green (Alex does one for Marissa)