Peer Editing

A peer reads your writing and gives you advice about how to improve it.
Find someone in class to be your editor for this first assignment.
Being a good editor of someone else’s work can help you as a writer, too, because it forces you to think more about what makes for good writing.

Ask your peer editor to read your narrative and answer the following questions about it:
Read the opening section of the narrative and then stop to answer questions 1 and 2.
Then finish the narrative and complete the response sheet by answering the questions on a separate sheet of paper.

1. Does this opening interest you? Explain. If it does not, suggest a way to make it better.
2. What do you think the narrative will be about?
3. Summarize the narrative in one or two sentences.
4. Finish this statement: Things I liked best were…
5. Complete this statement: Things I would like to know more about were…