Lydia Boinest English 1102 January 30, 2014 Unlike majority of the students in the class I did not

take English 1101, so I have not had a lot of experiences with workshopping. In high school AP English courses we sometimes would exchange our papers with classmates and mark, make corrections or suggestions on how to improve our peers papers. Often my concerns I found peer editing tended to be unhelpful or unnecessary. This is because occasionally a classmate would try and be harsh on marking up my paper and end up improperly checking it. Also I have had experiences with teacher feedback. I think teacher feedback is very beneficial because it helps to give a better insight to what the teacher is looking for in the assignment. When do we edit vs. revise? Revising your paper is going back over it after a teacher or peer edit and making the proper corrections. Editing is the act of going over your paper or a peers paper and marking or writing side notes about what sections need to be revised. I think it is necessary to both because editing helps you to see clearly each section that needs work, then you can properly begin to revise your paper. First, dont set out to seek and destroy all errors and problems in the writing. (Straub 137) By this I think that Straub is saying that as a reader it is not your place to make an array of corrections to a peers paper. I think I am going to implicate this in our workshops in class because I do not want to offend anyone by overcorrecting or accidently make a mark that is incorrect. I like to recommend

using both marginal comments and a note or letter at the end (straub 139) I agree with this because you do not want to overwhelm someones paper by covering everything in marks. You want them to be able to see all the corrections and that is possible when just putting them on the side.