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Ricardo Salinas

ENG 1320/1301. 158

Trang Phan

09/08/2010

Gloria A. Neubert and Sally J. McNelis “Peer Response”: Teaching Specific Revision Suggestions The English Journal, Vol.79 No.5 (Sep 1990). Pg 52-56.

Peer Response: Teaching Specific Revision Suggestions

Summary:

This article is talking about how average students respond to their peer’s draft, but the respond doesn’t help the writer because is not an specific comment, they are just telling them you should change the second page but they don’t tell you why, although you are trying to help the writer, since they don’t have experience responding that you are not helping him; but there is a way you can learn how to respond to a peer draft and is using the method PQP Praise- Question-Polish, they found out that using this would increase the percentage of specific comments and lower down the vague comments.

            The PQP technique requires to have groups usually of two or five people and the writer gives the paper to another guy and tells him to read it so now the writer can hear what he wrote in another voice and identify what should he change and what should leave on the draft. They introduce this to kids so they could learn how to make comments that are specific and they had an excellent result because when they didn’t use this the average for specific responds were 28% and when they teach them this method the average went up to 42%, so this article show us how using this method can work on kids helping them know how to answer to a peer draft.

 Question:

How would you describe a good comment? A bad comment? Examples? In which manner, in your opinion should the writer receive his peer’s comments?

Response:

A good comment is when your peer is telling you to change something like a paragraph or a word that doesn’t belong there, but he is giving you an explanation of why he is telling you to remove that, and he might tell you what to put, a perfect example for a good comment is when a teacher is revising an essay and she is telling you what to erase and what to leave to make a good draft or essay.

A bad comment is when your peer doesn’t know anything about writing, and you show him your work and while he is reading, he is telling you I don’t think you should put that word but he is not giving you a reason of why to change it, or you have an essay of 3 pages long and he tells you I didn’t like the second page, with that types of comment the only thing that they are doing is confuse you and believe that the work you did is wrong.

You should receive the comments and analyze what are they telling you and grab the ones that you see that help you the most, and those bad comments throw it away don’t put attention, because they are not giving you any explanation of why that is wrong.