Short Writing Assignment #3 “Straub”

     In the article “Responding-Really Responding-to Other Students’ Writing” by Richard Straub, he gives the reader guidance on how to better their evaluation method when looking over someone else’s paper. Straub writes on how the reader should handle an appropriate revision by telling them where to put comments, how much to evaluate, and what tone should be used when giving feedback. He also writes that the reader should not only point out areas where the writer lacks and needs improvement but point out what you like about certain parts of the work. Straub states that the reader should not be afraid to critic a piece of work harshly, because we as peer editors are simply doing so to help the writer get better. He makes it really clear that in order to really communicate comments to a writer is to make them specific and clear. Really responding to other students writing will make you a better writer because it forces you to automatically peer review your own writing as your working on it.