Blog Post #3

How Can You Provide Meaningful Feedback To Your Peers?

I found both of the videos to be very helpful to me, especially the video "Writing Peer Review Top 10 Mistakes". Even though this video was made by elementary aged kids, it touched on all of the mistakes that adults make as well. I have specifically run into Defensive Dave and Speedy Sally, and they are the worst kind of people to run into when peer editing in my opinion. Speedy Sally is someone who speeds through their critique, but gives no explanations or ways to improve the mistakes they point out which basically defeats the purpose of having someone else edit your work.

Defensive Dave is someone who gets defensive about everything you say that is not praising their work. Defensive Dave's are the exact reason I do not like critiquing other people's work. They make you feel so bad about everything you say when you're just trying to help. I'm glad that these mistakes were highlighted.