Peer Editing

Aim: How do we plan, revise, and edit our first Credo?       

Journal Prompt #8: "Help!"
Explain something you need help with in writing your first Credo. Topic? Direction? Audience? How to start? Please explain your confusion or challenge as completely as possible.

Someone once said that writing is 90% re-writing. It's never too early to begin the editing process. Today we will pair up with editors to help shepherd our first Credos. Use your editor to help you brainstorm, re-write, develop--whatever you need. See pages for a copy of the peer editing worksheet. When you turn in your Credo for a grade, you must also submit evidence that you have been edited. In other words, the peer editing worksheet.

For inspiration, you can listen to or read a multitude of personal essays at this Web site. 


Today's Agenda
I. Do Now
II. Peer Editing
III. Writing Workshop
IV. Closing

What's due

• First Credo is due by end of day Friday
• Independent reading book
• "Where I'm From" poem (Overdue)

Always check Engrade for your up to the minute progress in this class.