Peer Reviewing

Today you will work with a peer to read and offer suggestions on each other's writing. Your peer is not responsible for making all of the corrections to your story, but they should be able to read through your story and offer suggestions. Students will make sure that the story makes sense, flows well, and offer suggestions for improvements on editing and revising. We will work on this in class today, and tomorrow students will be editing their own story. 

How to Peer Revise and Edit on Google Drive

1. At the top right of your document you want to share, click the blue “share” button.
2. Type in the person’s email address (be sure to spell EVERYTHING correctly).
3. To the right of the email address where there is a picture of a pencil, click for the drop down menu and choose “can comment.”
4. Last, click “done.”
5. Your peer reviewer should be able to find your document under “shared with me” section of his/her Google Drive Home Page (it may take a few minutes before it appears).
6. To write comments on your partner’s page, put your cursor where you want to comment, then click “comments” at the top right of the page.
7. Next choose “comment” and type your suggestion.
8. Read through your peer’s document as they read through yours.
9. AFTER you have both given suggestions to each other, you can click back to your original story and view the comments.
10. View the comments your peer wrote, and click resolved when you are done with it. You do NOT have to choose to use their suggestions if you don’t feel it is correct. It is your story, so it is up to you. However, consider what they are saying to see if it will improve your story.
11. Once you have made the changes you’d like to make, re-read the story and make sure everything still makes sense.