A2: Peer Editing Assignment
Editing for Usage and Style by Tiffani Tijerina is licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 International
Editing for Usage and Style by Tiffani Tijerina is licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 International
This assignment is designed to give you hands-on experience applying the editing techniques we are discussing in class for the next few weeks. You will work with a peer's document to practice different levels of editing and provide constructive, meaningful feedback.
A Note on AI: Because this assignment involves the work of a fellow student, the use of any AI-powered editing tools must be discussed with your peer ahead of time. If they are uncomfortable with you using AI to assist in your editing, you may not use it.
Length/Scope: Ask a peer (in this class or elsewhere, but must be a fellow college student) if you can edit something they have written, ideally of approximately 800+ words. It must actually need to be edited.
Deliverables/Submissions: Submit three separate files in one Blackboard submission.
Original Draft
Scanned or Photographed Edited Revision with Hard Copy Markup
Edited Revision with Tracked Changes
Identify a peer in this class or another class who has a document (e.g., an essay, a lab report, a short paper) of approximately 800+ words that they are willing to have you edit. You must explicitly inform them that you are using their work for an assignment in this class and that the edited version will be submitted to your professor. Reassure your peer that their work will not be made public or visible to any other students.
Note: A "peer" is someone at a similar level to you. The work being edited should have been written by a fellow college student here or elsewhere. It should not be a child's school essay or a professional document.
Save the original document as a separate file for submission with your assignment.
Print a physical copy of your peer's document. Using a colored pen, edit their work on the printed paper using the copyediting symbols discussed in Week 3. Focus on both macro-level issues (e.g., content flow, organization, thesis) and micro-level issues (e.g., grammar, spelling, punctuation). Be sure to write comments and suggestions clearly in the margins.
Note: hard copy markup does require you to use legible handwriting. If your normal handwriting is not legible to the average person, take the extra time and care to make sure it is legible for your author (and me).
Either take photos of each page of the document and add each photo on its own page in the correct order in a Google Doc or Word Document or scan it into a computer and submit it as a PDF. If you submit as Google Docs, add my email to the sharing permissions list with editor access: ttijerina1@ualr.edu. Important: Include your link with your submission in Blackboard. Don't assume I have it in my email.
After completing your hard copy edits, use either Microsoft Word's Track Changes or Google Docs' Suggesting Mode features discussed in Week 4 to apply your edits and show you the differences between a hard copy and a soft copy workflow.
Submit this as either an uploaded Microsoft Word document with Track Changes enabled and showing all of your edits or as a Google Docs link with Suggesting Mode enabled and showing all of your edits. If you submit as Google Docs, add my email to the sharing permissions list with editor access: ttijerina1@ualr.edu. Important: Include your link with your submission in Blackboard. Don't assume I have it in my email.