Learning Outcome 4: Be able to critique their own and others’ work by emphasizing global revision early in the writing process and local revision later in the process.
What did I believe editing was? I also saw editing as a means of correction and less a way of perfecting. I thought it was a very one and done type scenario. You see problems and you correct them so they aren’t problems anymore. Following the peer edits, I found that even after perfection is presumably accomplished there is still more to be learned and adjusted. Sure, I may have gotten all of the grammar and spelling mistakes, but someone just told me that my sentence had a weird tone and I would’ve never picked up on that. Analyzing other papers also gave me a great chance to reflect on my own. With that said, I’ve provided two examples of feedback I received from others and two examples I gave to others.
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