Composition Eng. 1301-28
Trang Phan
9/11/10
Peer Response: Teaching Specific Revision Suggestions
Gloria A Neubert &Sally J. McNelis “Peer Response: Teaching Specific Revision Suggestions” The English Journal, Vol. 79 No. 5(Sep.1990) pg. 52-56
Summary: Gloria Neubert and Sally McNelis came up with ways to improve student’s responses to a peer’s draft. They came up with a technique called PQP which is known as Praise Question Polish. This helps the writer hear the comments his or her peers have to say about the story and helps them revise the story so that the readers have a better idea about the story. They also did a study and found that this technique was useful but found that the student’s responses were vague. By categorizing each student’s response as vague, general but useful, and specific, they were able to compare the categorizations and revealed that only 28% was specific, 53% was general but useful and 19% was vague. In order to generate a specific response a few more techniques were created such as total class activity, small group activity, individual work, follow up and a drill.. They found that after the techniques and instruction the specific comments rose to 42% and vague comments dropped to 14%. These techniques are important to us because they help us improve on our revising and make our stories more understandable to the reader.
Question: Why “peer response”? Do you think it would help you and others?
The reason for “peer response” is because it was created to help students respond effectively to another’s writing. In the article they talked about how students would just respond by saying “rewrite the second page” or “describe Anna better”, they never responded specific enough so that the writer would know what to change and make the story better. I honestly think it would help me as well as other students because it gives us a chance to see what we’re capable of when it comes to writing and responding. If they would have taught us this in high school I am more than sure my writing would be so much better. When it comes to writing I am not so big on describing things, I might even sometimes confuse the reader. If they would showed us these techniques it would have improved my writing as well as my peers’ responses, because they would be telling me specific things about my writing and I would go back and change whatever it was they said.
I wish they would have showed us this technique in high school too. I feel like I wasn't reaching my highest potential when revising. I like how your summary about the article is brief , clear, and to the point.
ReplyDeleteI agree,they should've taught this in high school, because PQP technique is a good way to revise and create a good essay. Your summary was brief and pointed out some important points on PQP.
ReplyDeleteThis PQP technique is very helpful and i agree with your thought that this would have made our writing so much helpful if we had been thought this strategy in high school.
ReplyDeleteI think this is a pertty good summary. However, it would help to explain what each part of PQP stands for.
ReplyDeleteI can really relate to your response. It is hard to be specific in your essay. Describing is another thing.Your summary was good. There were no opinions, it was just a summary with specifics from the article. Good Job :)
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