Working in groups or individually, students in Lisa Carne’s College Composition class engage in a peer editing exercise.
Looking at anonymous comparison and contrast submissions from a previous class, students critically engage with samples of student writing by highlighting where effective writing strategies were used and where the writing could have been improved.
“The editing exercise is an important step in the preparation of students before they engage in their own writing,” notes Carne. “Learning from prior examples allows students to be more purposeful when they start to work on their own comparison-contrast essays.”
