Memoir - Peer Edited Draft

Learning Target(s):

  • Use writing and design processes to plan, develop, and create engaging and meaningful texts for a variety of purposes and audiences
  • Respond to text in personal, creative, and critical ways
  • Assess and refine texts to improve clarity, effectiveness, and impact
  • Experiment with genres, forms, or styles of texts
  • Use the conventions of First Peoples and other Canadian spelling, syntax, and diction proficiently and as appropriate to the context 
  • Transform ideas and information to create original texts, using various genres, forms, structures, and styles
  • Select and apply appropriate strategies in a variety of contexts to guide inquiry, extend thinking, and comprehend texts

 

EDITING IS CRUCIAL

"But when it comes to killing elements of your own story, that’s so hard to do. You fiercely protect your own memories, as we all do, and the idea of cutting something out can be incredibly difficult.

Why?

Even though you have distance from the events in your memoir, it’s still a part of your experience. Most of us don’t have the objectivity needed to strip away parts of our story to find the true catalyst.

That’s where the [peer editor] comes in. Because memoirs are so personal, you need a fresh, impartial pair of eyes to help you create a stronger narrative." 

For the Peer Edited Draft Assignment, we want you to find a peer from the class to edit your first draft, perhaps you can exchange editing services. Failing that, you will need to find a friend, teacher or another adult to do the peer edit. Keep in mind this is a highly personal piece of writing, and you can be the judge of who you want to share it with. Contact your teacher if you have any concerns.

For the Peer Edited Draft, your peer will need to follow the instructions on the worksheet and provide a paragraph explanation/ comments on the draft. This worksheet needs to be handed in with the first draft.

Peer Editing Workshop Worksheet

TO DO:

  • You need to hand in the marked up draft and the worksheet as two separate documents. You can scan in the marked up draft or upload pictures. I need to see evidence of collaboration on the document.

This is where you will upload your assignment to your teacher for marking. 

You will upload the file containing your assignment.  

Name the file with your name and the title.  eg. Sally Brown Infographic Response

    • Click Add submission.

    • The Online Text box is used for brief comments or to paste your link to a shareable document. If you are using google docs, please select 'get shareable link' and then 'anyone with link can edit' and then 'copy link'. Use the chain icon in the online text box to create a hyperlink. Do not use the online text box to paste your whole assignment. 

    • Or, upload the file containing your assignment under File submission. 

    • Click Save changes.

Source: NY Book Editors https://nybookeditors.com/2016/03/how-to-write-a-memoir-that-people-care-about/