SQR 2

Lucero Chinchurreta
ENG 1320/1301.158
Instructor: Trang Phan
September 9, 2010
SQR 2
Gloria A. Neubert and Sally J. McNelis “Peer Response: Teaching Specific Revision Suggestion”
Summery:
This article talks about how untrained students are about giving feedbacks on each others drafts. Sarah W. Freedman found that teachers had a difficulty getting students to respond effectively to someone else writing. After studying the problem teachers decided to use the “PQP (Praise Question- Polish)”. The PQP techniques require a group of two to five students. The PQP stands for P stands for praise which is when the students ask “What was good about the writing? What should not be changed and why is it good?” Q is for question, when students ask what did they not understood. Last P stands for polish which is time for the student to make suggestions and improve the paper. After testing this technique teachers discovered that students were using the following types of comments are vague, general but useful or specific. What all those three mean is that vague is when a student used little or not revision at all, general but useful is when the student give a comments related to the whole paper but still has a direct revision and the last one is general which is when a student comment on a specific subject.


Question
Why “peer response”? What can peers comments do for one’s writing?
Respond
Peer response is a helpful way where other peers get to comment on someone else’s paper. Being able to have peer response helps students improve and see someone else point of view. With peer response a student can see what other peers like, what they think about concerning a specific topic. One example will be doing a paper about the law that was pass in Arizona for immigration some people made comments that they believe that the law is correct and they approve the law others might think it is racist and that they should take it away because it’s wrong to treat people that way. Either way they both write their point of view, but also they get to see a different perspective from their peers. As well it helps that other peer comments on what we wrote because it might helps us improve with our grammar, like our spelling, punctuation. If they see that at some point the other person went off topic, they can help you get back on track. Besides, they can help us get our point across or just to give us more examples or way that we can back up our information. Another way that peer response could be helpful to others is by sharing opinions and by that the student can improve their knowledge or the information they did not knew before and they get to interact with others.