Finishing Your Personal Narrative Essay

YOUR ASSIGNMENT:

Exercise: Students are asked to write about a memorable experience or an important event that occurred in their lives. After producing a rough draft, each student will revise his or her essay at least twice. Students first critique their own essay using the Six-Trait Scoring Guideline and the Student Friendly Guide to Writing With Traits. After revising their first draft, students exchange essays with a partner for a peer-editing session. Again, using the Six-Trait Scoring Guide and the Student-Friendly Guide to Writing Traits, each student reviews his or her peer’s essay, scoring it and adding helpful comments on the Peer Edit Response Form. Students then revise their essays a second time, based on comments given by their peers. The result is a higher quality of writing from each student than a teacher would see without assigning revisions.

In the Computer Lab Wednesday and Thursday:

Finish typing your essay today! Save it...get ready to edit your own work and to help your classmates edit their papers, as well. Remember, you'll need to print your work at the end of class Thursday (bring $) or print it at home to turn in on Friday.

When you have finished and saved your work, let me know. Your next step, copy and paste your essay into a NEW document. Save the new document with a new name. Your classmate (s) will read and edit this new saved document--that way you can compare the edits to the original.

By Thursday, you will need to have 5 classmates read and respond to your work! They will need to make changes/and or comments in the document AND, at the end of the paper, write a paragraph telling you 3 good things about the paper and 2 things you need to improve.

When you turn in your paper, you will write a list of 10 things your classmates told you -- 5 good things about your writing and 5 things you had to work on. Attach it to the back of your typed final essay!

Use this site to help you respond to your classmates' work using the six traits:

http://litsite.alaska.edu/workbooks/writetrait/peeredit.html

Here are additional sites to help you respond effectively:

http://writing2.richmond.edu/writing/wweb/peeredit.html

http://arapaho.nsuok.edu/~oseland/eng1213/peerediting.html

http://www.d.umn.edu/~jschwetm/w2000/engl1001/pe2.html

http://web.uvic.ca/~sdoyle/E302/Notes/Peer%20editing.html

http://www.madison.k12.ky.us/district/projects/WebQuest/Emily/revision.htm

http://www.stmary.k12.la.us/intech/INTECH/k6/day1/peerediting.htm