A&B Chapter 16 skill 16.4

Rough Drafting and revising your own work is important, but it is also good to get a second opinion.  Peer editing can be a great way to get helpful criticism and on your writing assignments.  When you have someone else read your work they may notice things that you as the writer wouldn't.  Along with heaving someone revise your paper the Allyn Bacon Guide to writing suggests revising a peers paper as well. Learning to revise other works can be a helpful tool as a writer because It helps you learn to look at a paper as a new reader.  When you revise it is important to talk as a reader would not a writer. this will help your peer better understand what they need to fix to make it better for their audience.  I plan on using peer editing, because a peer editing because they are reading the prose for the first time, so they tend to pick up on mistakes that you who have read it so many times might get lazy and over look.  I find that using a roommate or friend can be an easy way to get helpful feed back on a prose. They will at least be able to help with grammar and tell you if your passage makes sense. I think peer editing is an easy thing that can make all the difference.