IE3 Writing: Lesson 7

11/11/2015

Hi everyone,

Just one more week and you'll be completely finished your first essay!

Revising and Editing:
In today's class, we learned about revising and editing. When you revise, you correct the content and structure of your research paper. When you edit, you correct grammar and style mistakes.

You then have some time to work on your peer editing task. For this task, you will revise/edit your partner's concluding paragraph. You need to complete the following for this task:

complete the Peer Editing Worksheet
make revision corrections (using blue pen) on your partner's paragraph
make editing corrections (using red pen) on your partner's paragraph
make a copy of the worksheet and your partner's concluding paragraph (with your corrections)

In next week's class, you will give the original copies to your partner, and the copies to me. The worksheet is attached at the end of today's blog summary.

Conferences:
For the last part of our lesson, you work on your peer editing activities and I had conferences with the first group of students. We will continue our conferences in next week's lesson in Room 217.

Homework:

Peer Editing Task (=10%)
Blog Comment #6
Complete Conference Preparation Worksheet (conference group 2)

Blog Question #6:

How did you find the peer editing task?
How long did it take to revise and edit your partner's conclusion?

Write 10-12 sentences.
Use capitalization, punctuation & spelling correctly.
Submit by Tuesday, November 17 by 6:00pm

18 Comments

IE3W-Ryoma

11/13/2015 12:30:21 am

I found the peer editing task helpful because we can find the errors that we can't by other person. Also, we can hear new opinions from other person. In addition to that the people who is editing can also find new things. By editing others work, we learn things because we tend to use dictionaries to correct them.

It took me an hour to revise the paper. It took me more times than I had expected. We had to read all the paragraphs in order to correct the concluding paragraph because it is the conclusion of the essays. Also, the mistakes that we had to correct was 7, so it was very hard for me to find that much. It was too hard for me that I once mailed Nicole for an advice.The advice was that everybody makes mistakes, so just do your best. That advice convinced me and cheered me up.

IE3W-Takumi

11/15/2015 05:09:50 am

I think the peer editing task is very helpful in better understanding how to write essays. The task provided me an opportunity of reconfirming the right structure of the concluding paragraph. In addition, by finding partner's grammer mistakes, I could also learn the grammer. It was good time to learn basics of English grammer again. Also, reading other person's English was helpful in getting new English words and phrases that I don't know. However, the task was very hard for me because it was necessary to have good English knowledge to edit partner's concluding paragraph. I was troubled many times with judging whether sentenses are right or not. Hence, it took much time to complete the peer editing task.
Although it took much time, I thought that the peer editing task was really good way to acquire better English skills. I came to think that I should edit my essay every time by myself to make better essays and get better English skills.

IE3W-Kana

11/15/2015 09:41:01 pm

Peer editing task is very useful for me. By reading others writing, I can know new opinion. To know the objective opinion is important. Usually, I tend to think problems or things from just one viewpoint, so I can get other point of view. Also it is good for each other. To find the mistake leads to improve English skill.

It takes more than one hour. It is hard to find mistakes. To find mistake in conclusion, I have to read and understand contents. That's why it takes time than I expected.

IE3W-Ryosuke

11/16/2015 03:57:34 am

I found the peer editing task useful. There are two reasons why I think that it is useful. Firstly, it gave me a chance to understand a style of writing of the other person. Acquiring knowledge of it must enable me to write better essay in the future. Secondly, through the peer editing, I will find the mistakes that I overlook, but my partner notices. The process must make my essay more elaborate.

It took me about an hour to revise and edit my partner's conclusion. In order to revise and edit it appropriately, I had to read not only conclusion, but also the rest of my partner's essay, for I cannot do it without appreciating the one. Besides, revising and editing in themselves was hard. It was not so easy for me to use "Correction Symbols", referencing the materials on which they are written and look up a word in a dictionary, so as to make my correction accurate.

IE3W-Iyona

11/16/2015 05:22:31 am

I found the peer editing task very helpful for two reasons. First I can improve my English skill by editing my partners essay. To edit partners essay, I should understand the content well. I can also learn new vocabularies or grammar, by editing my partners essay. Second, I can make my essay a better essay. By writing and editing only by myself cannot make the essay better. Reading my own essay, I cannot read it objectively. Because I read my essay subjectively, my writing would not improve. Having my essay read and editing by other people, I can find out something that I could not find.

It took me about an hour to revise and edit my partner's conclusion. This is because my partner's conclusion was great so I had a hard time doing it. It took me a long time also because I had to understand the content clearly.

IE3W-Hideaki

11/16/2015 05:49:56 am

I found that peer editing task was helpful. Because I could know the places where needed corrections and the places where I could write in good manner. I had a little peer editing experiences. So, getting third person opinion but Nicole was meaningful experience. Also, usually I make the essay by myself. So,talking about essay with my partner inspired me to broaden my horizon. I could know other ways of writing patterns. I want to get more experience like this to enhance my English skill.

It took me more than one hour because I needed to check correctly my partner’s essay. I paid attention to each sentence in conclusion paragraph to check the places where my partner forgot to put sentences and to look through carefully grammar mistakes. Because if I did not focus on that, I would miss easily those places. In addition to this, I'm not an native speaker ,so checking the wrong places needed me concentration.

Nanako

11/16/2015 06:29:53 pm

I thought the peer editing task is so nice activity because I could read my partner's essay and compare to mine. That will make both mine and partner's better one. But it was difficult to find out 10 mistakes because there were only 4 sentences in my partner's conclusion. But that will be also helpful to improve my English skills.
It took about an hour to find out. Because there were four sentences, I had difficulties to find ten mistakes. And my partner's conclusion paragraph was great one. So I think I could learn new methods of writing rather than I could find mistakes. So I want to exploit the skills in the next essay.

IE3W-Miki

11/16/2015 06:41:09 pm

The peer editing task is very helpful for two reasons. First, I can correct the mistakes that I couldn't find by myself. I learned that other person's opinion is important. Second, I can get new ideas by editing partner's concluding paragraph. Other person's essay always inspires me and I can get new idea from it. I think it is good for each other. Also we can improve English skills by editing peer essay.
It took me more than one hour. It was very hard for me to revise and edit my partner's conclusion. However, it was good chance to make my essay better.

Saki U.

11/16/2015 06:49:57 pm

In my opinion, peer editing task is one of the way of improving English skills. I was able to learn not only grammar but also the style of writing from my partner's essay. Getting third person's opinion makes me notice my small grammatical mistakes and different opinions. It was a good opportunity to know essay structures well. Moreover, my perspective would be broaden more. And I realized without this task, I wouldn't have noticed my mistakes.That is why peer editing task is really important for me.

It took me about an hour to revise and edit my partner's conclusion. Since I'm not good at grammar, it was very difficult for me to correct it. Maybe my partner didn't make any mistakes in grammar, though. I hope my correction would be right.

IE3W-Sae

11/16/2015 09:20:14 pm

I found peer editing task is very useful. The reason is that you can learn new style of writing from your partner's essay. English learners like us do not really have a chance to read someone else's writing usually. Even if we have a chance, that may be only native spekers writing, and it is too difficult for us to steal their skills becuase of complicated grammer or difficult vocabularies. However, in this class, our English are about the same level, so it is easier to read other student's essay. That way, we can steal new style of writing easily.

It took me about 20 minutes to revise and edit my partner's conclusion. In my opinion, revising is much easier than editing. If you are good at your native language, you have no problem with revising. However, when you edit, you need to understand English grammer structure very well. That's why I took much more time on editing.

IE3W-Shoko

11/16/2015 11:13:04 pm

I found peer editing very difficult. When I write an essay, I always feel nervous. So this task was very useful to get confidence. It is important to know what kind of ideas others have and what kind of mistake they make in order to make my essay better.
It took about an hour and a half to revise my partner's essay. It took a long time because it seemed to be no problems with her writings. Through revising, I felt hard how bad I am in grammar. I had to read over and over again to find what is wrong.
I feel nervous with my corrections. But I am going to believe that I did it well.

IE3W-Mayu

11/17/2015 12:09:03 am

I think peer editing activity is difficult, but we can learn something for us from other's essay. I think my weakness is grammar, so it is so helpful for me to read other's. And I could know a field that he or she is interested in from theme of essay. This is so interesting for me.

It took about less 1 hour to make about a peer editing sheet. My pair's essay has correct structure, grammar, little mistake of spelling. So, It didn't take as long time as peer editing. Maybe my weakness of grammar influence he or her essay, but I did my best!

IE3W-Mizuki

11/17/2015 12:17:18 am

I found that peer editing task is helpful. There are two reasons that I thought so. First, I could find some mistakes in my essay through peer editing of my partner's essay. I actually noticed two grammar mistakes in my essay. Second, I learned some manners of writing by checking my partner's essay. I think I can improve my English skills if I develop the habit of editing my friends' writing.
It took about an hour to revise English. I couldn't find any mistakes at first, but I found them when I made sure of grammar and the tense. It is too difficult o find three mistakes only in the conclusion paragraph. However, at the same time, I thought that it is important for me to edit my partner's essay in order to acquire correct knowledges of English like grammar.

IE3W-Yu

11/17/2015 12:55:35 am

I think peer editing is helpful. It improves my english ability. Checking partner's essay, I can learn many things from it. For example, new ideas, how to write the essay more logically and so on. But peer editing is difficult. Usually I tend to think from my view only. so, this task will enable me to write better essay.

It took more than one hour to revise the paper because it was difficult for me to do it and I had to pay attention to it carefully. There may be still mistakes in partner's essay. However, I did Best.

IE3W-Gompei

11/17/2015 12:55:47 am

I guess peer editing is very helpful, because a partner gives me subjective ideas which I can't find by myself.
On the other hand, I will see many new ideas when i checking essay of my partner. This task enriches our essay's contents and our sense.

I didn't check my partner's essay yet. However, it takes long long time if we check seriously so that our essay improve in the good way. i'm looking forward to seeing my partner's essay.

IE3W-Misaki

11/17/2015 12:59:12 am

I found peer editing task is very useful. The other person's opinion is important and makes the essay better. Besides, it is good opportunity to know other writing ways.

It took about 2 hours. As many specialty English　was used in my partner's essay, I might check the meaning of any words. And, it's hard to find the 10 mistakes. In addition, I became careful to check my partner's conclusion paragraph than I wrote sentences of my conclusion. Because it influences the quality of partner's essay. Of course, I cannot write the wrong thing. So I looked various things up online. I sometimes checked I became careful than I thought about a sentence of one's conclusion. Because I influence essay of the partner, I cannot write the wrong thing. I checked various things. I sometimes checked more formal English than original.

IE3W-Yuuka

11/17/2015 01:00:55 am

I thought Peer editing task was a nice opportunity to have a look at other peoples writing. It is because by having a look at other peoples paper, you can find something that you didn't have in your paper. And by having your paper checked by a person who you don't get checked usually, you can see some editing from different point of view. Also, by checking a paper by myself, I found it helpful to look back at my grammar knowledge. I'm not good at grammar. For that, it took time for me to check them. But by checking them, I think I learned a way to pay attention to grammar. It was also good to think what is exactly wrong with the grammar when correcting, which you need your knowledge for grammar. When I found some awkward sentence, I had to think of a better way to say them. For that I had to use my brain and things I learned from the past to find a better way to say it.

11/17/2015 01:06:07 am

I'm sorry, I sent it by mistake before adding two more sentences.
Addition:

It took me about an hour to finish checking my partner's essay. It was difficult to do it because I've never peer-edited other people's essay.

IE3 Writing: Lesson 7

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