PEER EDITING PT. 2: CORRECTIONS

Richard Wilson

FREE-WRITING

FREE-WRITING• Write for 5 minutes at the beginning of

each class.

• This will be kept in your portfolio -but it’s not part of your grade.

• Don’t worry about spelling, grammar etc.

• Try not to stop writing!

FREE-WRITING

1. Praise

2. Suggestions

3. Corrections

3 STEPS OF PEER EDITING

CORRECTIONS

CORRECTIONSThe third step in the peer editing process is checking your peers paper for:

– Spelling mistakes– Grammar mistakes– Missing punctuation– Incomplete or run-on sentences

CORRECTIONS• Stay positive – Try to makesuggestions and corrections in apositive way.

• Be specific – Give the authorspecific ideas on how to improve hisor her writing.

• Complete all 3 steps – Praise, suggestions, and corrections.

+ Add a word I want go out tonight.

- Omit a word My mother told me to go to home early.

WF Word Form My girlfriend is a beauty girl.

WC Word Choice My book is in the table.

WO Word Order She every day goes to Starbucks coffee.

VT Verb Tense I wake up at 6 o’clock yesterday morning.

PL Singular-plural I am 24 year old.

SP Spelling Their is a new club in Itaewon.

P Punctuation Did you text me.

C Capitalisation Writing in english is easy.

A Article I’d like cup of coffee.

IS Incomplete Sentence I fell asleep. Because I was tired.

RO Run-on My car is out of gas we cannot reach town before dark.

/ Words are too close I have atest tomorrow at 3:00.

SVA Subject-verb agreement I eats breakfast every morning before school.

? I don’t understand Smartphone on subway in my pocket come of bus stop.

ARTICLE

•Need to add or change a, an or the.

IS IT A COUNT OR NON-COUNT NOUN?

Count Non-count•Rainstorms

•Chairs•Smiles•Assignments

•Weather•Furniture•Happiness•Homework

ARTICLESNon-count Count

• Never takes a/an

• Use no article if you are speaking in general

• Use ‘the’ if you are speaking about a particular example

• Uses a, an or the• If singular, it must

have an article• Usually a/an the

FIRST time you mention the noun

• Usually ‘the’ after that.

• Use ‘an’ when the next word starts with a vowel sound.

RECAP: ARTICLES

PRACTICE: ARTICLES

RUN-ON SENTENCE

• Two complete sentences made into one

• Need to add either punctuation or a conjunction.

• E.g. “I am a woman I am a truck driver”.

SUBJECT-VERB AGREEMENT

• Singular subjects need singular verbs

• Plural subjects need plural verbs

• E.g. “My brother is a nutritionist” “My sisters are doctors”

PRACTICE: PEER EDITING

SYMBOLS

EDIT FIRST DRAFTS