Q&R 3

Question: How does one benefit from PQP?

Answer: often teachers have the misconception that students lack the intellectual capacity of being able to read and acknowledge mistakes done by fellow classmates. This is not entirely true; an average student has the capacity of catching a mistake on a paper that a teacher might have overseen. Why? Simply because the student and the teacher are reading the same paper in different points of view. This can work even more efficiently if more students read the same paper and comment for revision rather than just one or two, this technique is called PQP (praise-question-polish) this technique has been used for years and has had a really good successful rate." The article peer response: Teaching specific revision suggestions" describe this as a "technique requires group members to take a turn reading their draft aloud as other follow along with copies." I believe that the reasons that this technique has a really good successful rate this that persons who are revising ones paper are fellow classmates who are able to identify mistakes made in ones writing. The PQP technique not benefits the write but also the person who is reading the paper. Because the method requires that students who are reading the paper to comment back on specific errors or mistake that the paper might have. These comments have to be narrowed down to its specific errors instead of being vague comments. One should question the fellow paper with question such as “Why was the story just ok? What details did the writer lack? Did the writer provide sufficient informative details in story for the reader to imagine what she/ he were trying to say? Why and why not? This questions help the writer correct her/his mistake in an efficient way. In conclusion one can say that PQP benefits one in the art correcting a paper and enhances the reader response to the paper.