Description
Revising and editing a peer's writing helps students learn to work as a team. It also gives them a fresh perspective on the proofreading process that will help them become more aware as they write and edit their own work. The APA investigated the impact of a reciprocal peer editing strategy on 29 learning disabled 4th-, 5th-, and 6th-grade students' knowledge about writing and revising, their actual revising activity, and the quality of their writing. Students learned to work in pairs to help each other improve their compositions. The strategy was taught by special education teachers who were using a process approach to writing instruction in their classrooms and word processing to support the writing process. Students in the strategy group made more revisions and produced papers of higher quality when revising with peer support than Ss in a process approach control group. On a metacognitive interview, strategy students demonstrated greater awareness of substantive criteria for evaluating writing in response to general questions about evaluating and revising particular papers. Video: This video displays two eight graders working through the peer revision process.
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