At the beginning of peer editing, the focus was primarily on local revisions like grammar. We had to learn to peer edit globally and do local corrections on our own. Despite the emphasis leaving from local changes, it is still essential in our papers. MLA formatting, grammar, and MLA citations make the paper look more cleaned up and shows that the directions were followed. My MLA formatting has improved because before this class; I would use easyBib and trust that it was correct. However, in class, we learned how to cite articles using The Little Seagull properly.
Pollan, Micheal, “Out of the Kitchen, Onto the Couch.” New York Times,29 July 2009, https://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/02/magazine/02cooking-t.html. Accessed 12 Oct. 2018
In Paper 2, Favorite Meal Analysis Paper I used this book to cite the article I used, and we also reviewed how to cite a quote. Most of us were familiar with quotes, but I was never sure if I was citing the quotes correctly. It was nice to haveThe Little Seagull to look back at examples of how to cite a quote. I took a quote I used in Paper 2, and it shows that after the quote I made sure to put the parenthesis, the author’s name, page # if applicable but wasn’t in this case, and then the period after all of it. If there’s a quote within a quote, one apostrophe is needed (‘) vs. two (“).
“Harry Balzer, who explained that ‘people call things ‘cooking’ today that would roll their grandmother in her grave — heating up a can of soup or microwaving a frozen pizza’”(Pollan).
For local revision like grammar and run on sentences, I would read my paper out loud to myself. Reading it out loud shows your mistakes right away, and we also had the opportunity to in class to “correct” any grammar before we passed it in. Also, during peer editing, we focused on global ideas mainly but had to include the local revisions as well.
