Giving Peer Feedback Peer editing groups provide a fun and effective way to develop your writing and editing skills - skills including you will need throughout your college experience. Specifically, these groups give each writer the opportunity to write for an audience other than the professor, and when you know your peers will read your draft, you often think about how you can engage your audience and explain your ideas clearly . some students have difficulty saying what they think about a piece of writing. Such difficulties arise when students feel uncomfortable commenting on someone else's work, not wanting to label anything "wrong", not feeling qualified to "judge" the work of others. Instead, some find it tempting to say, “That sounds good to me,” but your peers don't learn anything from those comments. More than assessments of right and wrong, effective peer review requires you to act as an interested reader who wants to learn as much as possible from the essay. Your job therefore requires you to read carefully, comment, question and offer the type of feedback that you yourself would find interesting. Start by telling the writer what you like, then point out places where you think the writer was less effective. Remember to choose your language carefully rather than saying, "That doesn't make any sense," try something like, "I wasn't entirely clear on what that sentence meant." Additionally, try avoid overly broad language (“It's hard to understand) or vague language (“Your description here seems ok”) in favor of specific cases (“This list makes the procedure clear”; “I think you should make this point more clearly). ., confusing, confusing, repetitive or just plain annoying, take the comments as one person's opinion. Accept it and see what you can do to correct it. advice from your editor-in-chief and you find it useless, do not hesitate to ignore it. However, generally, if one reader suggests a problem, other readers will likely encounter a similar problem. Careful review will likely improve your writing.________________________________________________________________________Adapted from the following sources: Colby College. (2016). Peer editing. Retrieved from http://www.colby.edu/writers.center/peerediting.html Dawson, M. (2016). Writer's Web: Guide to Peer Editing. Retrieved from http://writing2.richmond.edu/writing/wweb/peereditprint.html Doyle, S. (2013). Guidelines for peer editing. Retrieved from http://web.uvic.ca/~sdoyle/E302/Notes/Peeréditing.html